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Commando 41-24770

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24770

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26691

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU331

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  November 1943 to February 1946

  41-24770 - USAAF (USA)

21 November 1943

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

18 December 1943

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

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

 

Right: 41-24770 being broken up by the 26th Depot Repair Squadron, at Agra Air Depot, Uttar Pradesh or Karachi, Sindh, India.
Photo credit: Jim Baker / CBI

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Last edited: 27/01/2019