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Commando 41-5161

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-5161

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26363

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU3

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1942 to February 1945

  41-5161 - USAAF (USA)


19 July 1942

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

Assigned to Detroit Wayne County, MI.

Late 1942

Returned to Curtiss briefly for modifications.

ca 1943

Likely assigned to Air Transport Command's 3rd Operational Training Unit (3 OTU) based at Reno AAF, NV.

11 January 1943

Damaged at Reno AAF, NV in a landing accident.

 

Right: 41-5161 at the Buffalo factory, with a seemingly new cargo door. Note the "25161" on the tail: 42-5161 was a B-17, not a Commando... Typo?
Photo credit: www.worldwarphotos.info

  February 1945 to December 1945

  41-5161 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


26 February 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at San Bernardino AAF, CA.

25 December 1945

Reclamation completed.

Last edited: 26/08/2020