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Commando 41-24716

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24716

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26637

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU277

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1943 to July 1944

  41-24716 - USAAF (USA)


22 September 1943

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

18 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 9, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

21 June 1944

Went missing near Mohanbari, Assam, India. [MACR 6295]

Pilot: Capt Richard B. Giblin (missing)

12 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.