Commando 41-12433

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12433

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26560

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU200

FATE: Unknown

  July 1943 to November 1945

  41-12433 - USAAF (USA)

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15 July 1943

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

8 October 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 30^th Transport Group, 303^rd Transport Squadron based in Mohanbari, Assam, India.

7 November 1943

Received major damage in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Rodney J. Baronet

22 August 1944

Assigned to Brookley Field, AL.

Sometime in 1944

Assigned to Salt Lake City, UT.

11 October 1944

Received major damage at Reno AAF, NV after an engine fire.

Pilot: Herald E. Williams

  November 1945 to 1952

  41-12433 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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14 November 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  1952 to 1955

  N3953C - RESORT AIRLINES (USA)

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1952

Purchased by National Aircraft Corporation of Miami, FL and leased to Resort Airlines.

  1955 to 1957

  N3953C - AAXICO (USA)

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1955

Purchased by Howard J. Korth, President of AAXICO, and leased to AAXICO.

  1957 to 1958

  CU-C555 - AEROVIAS Q (CUBA)

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1957

Purchased.

  1958 to 1959

  CU-T555 - AEROVIAS Q (CUBA)

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1958

Reregistered.

 

Right: a rather plump lady passenger poses in front of CU-T555.
Photo credit: @UlisK3LU / Flickr

  1959 to unknown date

  CU-T507 - CUBANA (CUBA)

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1959

Transferred as part of Aerovias Q's merger into Cubana, and reregistered.

1962

Withdrawn from use.

[this Commando is occasionally listed as CU-T607, which was hijacked and crashed on 9 August 1961, but that one is more likely S/N 41-107292]