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Commando 41-12376

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-10-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12376

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26503

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU143

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  June 1943 to October 1945

  41-12376 - USAAF (USA)


5 June 1943

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

Assigned to Curtiss-Wright.

28 August 1944

Assigned to Brookley Field, AL.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  41-12376 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


4 October 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  May 1948 to February 1949

  41-12376 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

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

16 June 1948

Assigned to the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area based at San Bernardino AFB, CA for reclamation.

18 February 1949

Reclamation completed at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

Last edited: 03/01/2019