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Commando 41-24771

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24771

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26692

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU332

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1943 to December 1945

  41-24771 - USAAF (USA)


21 November 1943

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

15 December 1943

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

19 February 1944

Damaged in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Henry M. Taylor Jr (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

31 December 1945

Excluded from inventory.

Probably condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 27/01/2019