Commando 41-24680

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24680

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26601

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU241

FATE: Written off

  September 1943 to March 1944

  41-24680 - USAAF (USA)

15 September 1943

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

22 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based in Missamari, Assam, India.

3 March 1944

Went missing near Kunming, Yunnan, China (0/4 fatalities). [MACR 4220]

While on a cargo flight, the crew encountered an unknown technical failure and was forced to attempt an emergency landing. The aircraft crash-landed and was damaged beyond repair, while all four occupants escaped uninjured.

Pilot: W. D. Carringer

7 March 1944

Condemned for salvage.

[AAIR quotes this aircraft missing over CBI theatre on 18 January 1944]