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Commando 42-96532

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96532

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30194

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU730

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  Unknown date to June 1944

  42-96532 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  June 1944 to July 1946

  42-96532 - USAAF (USA)


30 June 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

5 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

21 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.