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Commando 41-5160

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-5160

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26362

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU2

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  June 1942 to November 1945

  41-5160 - USAAF (USA)

28 June 1942

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

Assigned to Wright Field, OH, presumably used as test aircraft.

Late 1942

Returned to Curtiss briefly for modifications.

 

Right: 41-5160 parked at an unknown airfield.
Photo credit : www.worldwarphotos.info

41 5160 3

  November 1945 to unknown date

  41-5160 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

8 November 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR. Presumed broken up.

Last edited: 26/08/2020