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Commando 41-12312

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12312

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26439

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU79

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  March 1943 to November 1945

  41-12312 - USAAF (USA)

23 March 1943

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

Assigned to New Castle AAB, DE.

1 May 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

8 April 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

  November 1945 to August 1950

  41-12312 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

6 November 1945

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

  August 1950 to April 1951

  N3915C - SAT (SOUTHERN AIR TRANSPORT) (USA)

August 1950

Purchased from RFC.

September 1951

Registered.

  April 1951 to 1956

  N66575 - SAT (SOUTHERN AIR TRANSPORT) (USA)

April 1951

Reregistered.

1956

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 15/05/2019