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Commando 41-24731

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24731

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26652

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU292

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  October 1943 to November 1944

  41-24731 - USAAF (USA)


27 October 1943

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

18 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

29 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair after a belly landing in Gaya, Bihar, India.

Pilot: Henry W. Tutt

22 November 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 19/01/2019