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Commando 41-12314

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12314

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26441

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU81

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  March 1943 to March 1946

  41-12314 - USAAF (USA)


21 March 1943

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

Assigned to New Castle AAB, DE.

1 May 1943

Assigned to the 10th Air Force, ATC India-China Wing.

Unknown date

Damaged Tezpur, Assam, India in a landing accident. [date erroneously reported as 23 January 1943]

1 May 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

1944

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

22 November 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

31 March 1946

Assigned to the Warner Robins Air Technical Service Center based at Robins AAF, GA for reclamation as Class 01Z.

20 March 1946

Reclamation completed at Robins AAF, GA. [dates discrepancy]

Last edited: 15/05/2019