Commando 41-12382

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12382

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26509

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU149

FATE: Broken up

  May 1943 to September 1943

  41-12382 - USAAF (USA)

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26 May 1943

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

Assigned to Billings, MT.

  September 1943 to June 1944

  41-12382 - NORTHWEST AIRLINES (USA)

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16 September 1943

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

  June 1944 to February 1946

  41-12382 - USAAF (USA)

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13 June 1944

Returned to the USAAF.

Assigned to the 3^rd Operational Training Unit (3 OTU) based at the 566th AAF Base Unit, Reno AAF, NV.

17 August 1944

Received major damaged at McClellan Field, CA in a landing accident.

Pilot: Robert R. Campodonico (survived)

 

Right: 41-12382 stored at McClellan Field, CA after its accident in August 1944.
Photo credit: unknown

  February 1946 to April 1946

  41-12382 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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14 February 1946

Transferred to RFC as scrap.

9 April 1946

Reclamation completed, probably at the Sacramento Air Materiel Area based at McClellan Field, CA.