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Commando 42-96575

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96575

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30237

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU773

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  June 1944 to October 1944

  42-96575 - USAAF (USA)


22 June 1944

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

20 July 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

21 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Gaya, Bihar, India in an accident and destroyed by fire.

Pilot: Orin G. Harman

Condemned for salvage.