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Commando 42-96531

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96531

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30193

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU729

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to December 1944

  42-96531 - USAAF (USA)


3 July 1944

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

Probably assigned to the 2nd Combat Cargo Group based at Syracuse AAB, NY.

19 September 1944

Assigned to Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

13 December 1944

Damaged beyond repair in unknown circumstances.

Condemned for salvage, “obsolete” [?!?].

Last edited: 05/02/2020