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Commando 41-24701

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24701

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26622

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU262

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1943 to February 1944

  41-24701 - USAAF (USA)


15 September 1943

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

18 January 1944

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

2 March 1944

Received major damage in Chanyi, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Henry T. Fulton

8 May 1944

Went missing over China. The crew apparently bailed out and the aircraft crashed. [MACR 4883]

Pilot: Robert A. Sherry

Condemned for salvage. [date quoted as 17 February 1944 by AB]