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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