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Commando 41-5189

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-1-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-5189

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26391

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU31

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  December 1942 to October 1945

  41-5189 - USAAF (USA)


11 December 1942

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

Assigned to Ladd AAF, AK.

26 July 1943

Assigned to ATC Alaskan Wing.

7 June 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

  October 1945 to September 1947

  41-5189 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


5 October 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Bush Field, GA.

  September 1947 to December 1948

  41-5189 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

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

30 June 1948

Assigned to the Warner Robins Air Technical Service Center based at Robins AFB, GA for reclamation.

6 December 1948

Reclamation completed at Robins AFB, GA.

Last edited: 15/05/2019