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Commando 41-12402

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12402

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26529

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU169

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  June 1943 to January 1946

  41-12402 - USAAF (USA)


15 June 1943

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

11 July 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

23 February 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

Unknown date

Probably assigned to the 3rd Operational Training Unit (3 OTU) based at Reno AAF, NV.

14 November 1945

Salvaged at Reno AAF, NV.

3 January 1946

Reclamation completed at Reno AAF, NV.

[erroneously mixed up by some sources with 41-12433 as becoming N3953C and CU-T555]