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Commando 42-96569

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96569

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30231

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU767

FATE: Broken up

 

Right: 42-96569 flies over the Himalaya while on a supply mission between India and China in 1944.
Photo credit: Don Greer / C-46 Commando, In Action No.1188, by Terry Love, Squadron/Signal Publication

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Operational Record

  June 1944 to January 1946

  42-96569 - USAAF (USA)

20 June 1944

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

20 August 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.

 

Below: 42-96569 inflight over the Hump.
Photo credit: National Archives

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Last edited: 13/09/2020