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Commando 41-5196

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-5196

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26398

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU38

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  February 1943 to October 1945

  41-5196 - USAAF (USA)

3 February 1943

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

Assigned to New York LaGuardia, NY.

29 May 1943

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

  October 1945 to March 1948

  41-5196 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

5 October 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Bush Field, GA.

  March 1948 to April 1949

  41-5196 - USAF (USA)

9 March 1948

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

5 May 1948

Assigned to Langley AFB, VA.

6 April 1949

Sent for reclamation.

Last edited: 15/05/2019