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Commando 41-24658

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24658

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26579

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU219

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  August 1943 to February 1944

  41-24658 - USAAF (USA)


2 August 1943

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

29 August 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

31 January 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 3970]

1 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.