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Commando 42-96567

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96567

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30229

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU765

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  June 1944 to July 1946

  42-96567 - USAAF (USA)

26 June 1944

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

17 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

25 December 1944

Received major damage at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a taxi accident while parked.

23 July 1946

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