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Commando 41-12281

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12281

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26408

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU48

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  February 1943 to October 1945

  41-12281 - USAAF (USA)


19 February 1943

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

Assigned to New York LaGuardia, NY.

29 May 1943

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

ca 1943

Assigned to Brookley Field, AL.

23 June 1944

Departed Brookley Field, AL for unknown assignment.

20 February 1945

Returned to Brookley Field, AL from unknown assignment.

15 May 1945

Assigned to Davis-Monthan AAF, AZ.

8 June 1945

Assigned to Miami, FL.

  October 1945 to June 1948

  41-12281 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


30 October 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Bush Field, GA.

  June 1948 to January 1949

  41-12281 - USAF (USA)


22 June 1948

Returned to USAF service under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

12 July 1948

Assigned to the Warner Robins Air Technical Service Center based at Robins AFB, GA for reclamation.

14 January 1949

Reclamation completed at Robins AFB, GA.

Last edited: 15/05/2019