Commando 41-5168

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-5168

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26370

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU10

FATE: Written off

  September 1942 to July 1943

  41-5168 - USAAF (USA)

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13 September 1942

Assigned to St Paul Minneapolis, MN, maybe with Northwest Airlines for operational proving flights.

Late 1942

Returned to Curtiss briefly for modifications.

5 June 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 22nd Transport Group, 78th Transport Squadron based at Jorhat, Assam, India.

2 July 1943

Crashed over the China-Burma-India theatre due to an engine failure. [MACR 317]