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Commando 41-24753

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24753

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26674

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU314

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  November 1943 to April 1944

  41-24753 - USAAF (USA)


7 November 1943

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

11 December 1943

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

2 April 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Chittagong, Bengal, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Sherwood W. Stahl (survived)

3 April 1944

Condemned for salvage.