Commando 42-96586

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96586

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30248

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU784

FATE: Unknown

  July 1944 to July 1946

  42-96586 - USAAF (USA)

6 July 1944

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

30 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

7 July 1945

Received major damage at Oran La Senia, French Algeria in a taxi accident while parked.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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

[JB has this aircraft written off on 7 July 1945 in Kunming in a takeoff accident instead]