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Commando 42-96568

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96568

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30230

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU766

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  June 1944 to January 1946

  42-96568 - USAAF (USA)

24 June 1944

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

13 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

28 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

20 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.