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Commando 42-96592

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96592

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30254

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU790

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1944 to April 1946

  42-96592 - USAAF (USA)


26 July 1944

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

22 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

1 June 1945

Received major damage in Casablanca, French Morocco in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: John M. Steen

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

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


15 April 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.