Commando 41-12293

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-5-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12293

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26420

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU60

FATE: Broken up

  March 1943 to unkown date

  41-12293 - USAAF (USA)

2 March 1943

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

  Unknown date to March 1949

  41-12293 - NACA (NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS) (USA)

Unknown date

Transferred to NACA.

Assigned to the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory based at NAS Moffett Field, CA. Aircraft dedicated to deicing research.

17 January 1947

Redesignated EC-46A at NAS Moffett Field, CA.

1 July 1948

Redesignated ZEC-46A.

Above: 41-12293 equipped with a Curtiss air-heated propeller

Left: Icing on 41-12293’s probes.
Bottom left: NACA’s EC-46A on the ramp at Moffett Field, CA.
Bottom right: NACA engineers working on a heated airfoil to be tested on 41-12293.
Photo credit: NASA

  March 1949 to July 1949

  41-12293 - USAF (USA)

25 March 1949

Assigned to Colombus, [OH or IN? Probably Lockbourne AAF, OH].

24 May 1949

Sent for reclamation.

4 July 1949

Reclamation completed.

Left: Icing on 41-12293’s probes.
Bottom left: NACA’s EC-46A on the ramp at Moffett Field, CA.
Bottom right: NACA engineers working on a heated airfoil to be tested on 41-12293.
Photo credit: NASA