Commando 41-24711

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24711

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26632

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU272

FATE: Written off

  September 1943 to October 1944

  41-24711 - USAAF (USA)

21 September 1943

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

11 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

13 October 1944

Crashed in Hsingching, China after the crew bailed out due to an engine failure. [this location cannot be found anywhere. ASN quotes the crash site as “Hsinking” (nowadays Changchun, Jilin, China) but it seems unlikely as that was located in Mandchukuo, Mandchuria then occupied by Japan]

Pilot: Theodore E. Adcock

26 October 1944

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.