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Commando 41-24696

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-25-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24696

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26617

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU257

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1943 to February 1944

  41-24696 - USAAF (USA)


30 September 1943

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

22 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.

31 January 1944

Crashed 20 miles northeast of Yangkai, Yunnan, China after crew bailed out (fatalities). [MACR 2092]

Pilot: Everett Cone

2 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.