Commando 42-96584

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96584

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30246

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU782

FATE: Unknown

  June 1944 to April 1946

  42-96584 - USAAF (USA)

30 June 1944

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

26 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

25 December 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to December 1959

  ????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

15 April 1946

Purchased.

1949

Evacuated to Taiwan.

  December 1959 to unknown date

  91-1137 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

23 December 1959

Purchased.

21 January 1963

Removed from service and used as a ground instructional airframe at Hamamatsu AB, Japan.

1973

Withdrawn from use and stored at Hamamatsu AB, Japan.

Right: 91-1137, already a ground instructional airframe, seen at the Hamamatsu Air Festival, 15 November 1972.
Photo credit: unknown / www.gonavy.jp