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Commando 42-96547

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96547

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30209

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU745

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  June 1944 to February 1946

  42-96547 - USAAF (USA)


24 June 1944

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

24 July 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, Assam Wing, 1333rd AAF Base Unit, based at Chabua, Assam, India.

11 July 1945

Damaged in Chabua, Assam, India in a ground accident while parked.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.