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Commando 41-24726

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24726

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26647

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU287

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  October 1943 to February 1944

  41-24726 - USAAF (USA)


2 October 1943

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

2 January 1944

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

7 February 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 2662]

Pilot: Jack H. Hederstrom

25 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 19/01/2019