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Commando 42-96530

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96530

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30192

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU728

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to August 1944

  42-96530 - USAAF (USA)


July 1944

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

4 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

18 August 1944

Damaged beyond repair at Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco in a taxi accident while parked.

19 August 1944

Condemned for salvage.