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Commando 42-96561

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96561

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30223

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU759

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1944 to September 1947

  42-96561 - USAAF (USA)


July 1944

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

  September 1947 to March 1965

  42-96561 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Assigned to 2578th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Ellington AFB, TX.

8 February 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

2 February 1959

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.