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Commando 41-24685

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24685

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26606

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU246

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1943 to January 1944

  41-24685 - USAAF (USA)


3 September 1943

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

10 December 1943

Assigned to the 10th Air Force based in Assam, India.

14 January 1944

Crashed north of Ledo, Assam, India after the crew bailed out. [MACR 1997]

Pilot: William J. Masters

29 January 1944

Condemned for salvage.