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Commando 41-24657

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24657

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26578

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU218

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  August 1943 to June 1946

  41-24657 - USAAF (USA)


2 August 1943

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

4 September 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

18 September 1944

Assigned to Brookley Field, AL.

Unknown date

Assigned to an unknown foreign base.

14 May 1945

Assigned to Miami, FL.

1 September 1945

Withdrawn from use as Class 01Z and used for ground instruction at Hill Field, UT, probably by the Ogden Air Technical Service Command.

6 November 1946

Sent for reclamation at Hill Field, UT.

20 June 1946

Reclamation completed at Hill Field, UT.