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Commando 41-24648

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-20-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24648

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26569

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU209

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1943 to October 1943

  41-24648 - USAAF (USA)

24 July 1943

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

9 August 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 30th Transport Group, 304th Transport Squadron based in Mohanbari, Assam, India.

23 October 1943

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre (5/5 missing). [MACR 985]

The Commando disappeared while performing a cargo flight between China and India. It probably crashed in a mountainous area of the Yunnan province and no trace of the aircraft or crew was ever found.

Crew:
F/O Raymond M. Sexton
1st Lt Allen J. Peterson

25 October 1943

Condemned for salvage.

[this Commando is quoted by AAIR "bailed out, out of gas" on 31 December 1943]