Commando 41-24728

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24728

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26649

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU289

FATE: Broken up

  October 1943 to January 1946

  41-24728 - USAAF (USA)

4 October 1943

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

22 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.

3 February 1944

Received major damage in Missamari, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Virgil D. Calkin

13 January 1945

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a ground loop.

Pilot: Charles B. Cox Jr

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission. [date quoted as 29 January 1946 by JB]