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Commando 41-12280

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-1-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12280

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26407

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU47

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  February 1943 to February 1946

  41-12280 - USAAF (USA)


19 February 1943

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

Assigned to New York LaGuardia, NY.

1 May 1943

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

17 June 1943

Assigned back to the continental USA.

30 August 1943

Assigned to the 2nd Operational Training Unit (2 OTU) based at Homestead AAF, FL.

15 September 1943

Damaged at Homestead AAF, FL.

Between 1943 and 1944

Repaired at the Sacramento Air Depot based at McClellan Field, CA.

27 May 1944

Damaged near Fernley, NV when the crew made a forced landing in the salt flats following engine failure.

  February 1946 to April 1946

  41-12280 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


14 February 1946

Transferred to RFC as scrap.

9 April 1946

Reclamation completed.

Last edited: 15/05/2019