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Commando 41-5202

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-5202

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26404

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU44

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  January 1943 to November 1945

  41-5202 - USAAF (USA)


29 January 1943

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

Assigned to Patterson Field, OH.

1 May 1943

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

14 October 1944

Assigned back to the continental USA.

4 January 1945

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

7 November 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  November 1945 to May 1948

  41-5202 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


7 November 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Bush Field, GA.

  May 1948 to December 1948

  41-5202 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

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

6 December 1948

Reclamation completed at the Warner Robins Air Technical Service Center based at Robins AFB, GA.

Last edited: 15/05/2019