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Commando 41-12301

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12301

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26428

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU68

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  March 1943 to October 1945

  41-12301 - USAAF (USA)


20 March 1943

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

29 May 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

15 February 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

29 February 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

17 May 1944

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

22 December 1944

Assigned to Brookley Field, AL.

  October 1945 to June 1951

  41-12301 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


6 October 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

  June 1951 to unknown date

  N5479N - SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION (USA)


June 1951

Purchased from RFC. [some sources quote July 1951]

Last edited: 15/05/2019