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Commando 41-12380

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12380

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26507

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU147

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1943 to September 1943

  41-12380 - USAAF (USA)


26 May 1943

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

Assigned to Billings, MT.

  September 1943 to unknown date

  41-12380 - NORTHWEST AIRLINES (USA)


16 September 1943

Leased to Northwest Airlines, based in St Paul Minneapolis, MN.

  Unknown date to August 1945

  41-12380 - USAAF (USA)


Unknown date

Returned to the USAAF.

2 August 1944

Assigned to Reno AAF, NV, probably to the 3rd Operational Training Unit (3 OTU).

7 August 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Reno AAF, NV in a takeoff accident.

27 August 1945

Surveyed at Reno AAF, NV.