Commando 41-24654

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-20-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24654

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26575

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU215

FATE: Broken up

  July 1943 to November 1945

  41-24654 - USAAF (USA)

28 July 1943

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

20 August 1943

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

29 October 1943

Received major damage in Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Vernon P. Powell

[JB quotes this Commando as written off after this accident; it might have been condemned and later reinstated]

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

9 August 1944

Assigned to Brookley Field, AL.

  November 1945 to May 1948

  41-24654 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

12 November 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  May 1948 to February 1949

  41-24654 - USAF (USA)

21 May 1948

Returned to USAF service under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

16 June 1948

Assigned to the San Bernardino Air Depot based at San Bernardino AFB, CA for reclamation.

18 February 1949

Reclamation completed at San Bernardino AFB, CA.