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Commando 41-12394

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-15-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12394

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26521

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU161

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  June 1943 to January 1946

  41-12394 - USAAF (USA)

8 June 1943

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

17 July 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

1 June 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

5 June 1944

Assigned to Homestead AAF, FL, probably to the 2nd Operational Training Unit (2 OTU).

 

Right: the Commando doing what it does best : a whole ambulance being loaded onto 41-12394.
Photo credit: USAF

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  January 1946 to unknown date

  41-12394 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

16 January 1946

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