Commando 42-96546
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96546
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30208
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU744
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
June 1944
42-96546 - USAAF (USA)
19 June 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
June 1944 to September 1944
42-96546 - HIGGINS INDUSTRIES (USA)
20 June 1944
Loaned to Higgins Aircraft in New Orleans, LA.
September 1944 to February 1946
42-96546 - USAAF (USA)
17 September 1944
Returned from loan to Higgins Aircraft.
16 November 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Division.
4 December 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Division.
13 December 1944
Damaged in Myitkyina, Burma in a taxi accident.
Pilot: Merle D. Edwards
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
10 February 1946
Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.
Last edited: 13/11/2019