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Commando 41-24682

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24682

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26603

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU243

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1943 to February 1944

  41-24682 - USAAF (USA)


3 September 1943

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

27 January 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 6, Chabua, Assam, India.

17 February 1944

Went missing over China. [MACR 3010]

Pilot: Harold H. Barton (survived, later became a USAF Lt Col and flew the Berlin Airlift)

18 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.