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Commando 41-24745

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24745

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26666

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU306

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  November 1943 to February 1944

  41-24745 - USAAF (USA)


1 November 1943

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

5 December 1943

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

7 February 1944

Went missing over China. [MACR 2319]

Pilot: Roscoe T. Smith

8 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.