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Commando 42-96556

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96556

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30218

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU754

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  June 1944 to July 1946

  42-96556 - USAAF (USA)


6 July 1944

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

25 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North Atlantic Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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