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Commando 41-24699

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24699

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26620

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU260

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1943 to July 1944

  41-24699 - USAAF (USA)


15 September 1943

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

20 January 1944

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

19 June 1944

Went missing near Chabua, Assam, India. [MACR 5888] [date also reported as 20 June 1944]

Pilot: Richard E. Kimble

5 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.