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Commando 41-24704

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24704

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26625

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU265

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1943 to August 1944

  41-24704 - USAAF (USA)


19 September 1943

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

25 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

25 May 1944

Went missing 128 km south of Sookerating, Assam, India (some fatalities). [MACR 5293]

Pilot: William D. Schoensee (survived)

28 August 1944

Condemned for salvage.