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Commando 42-96604

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96604

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30266

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU802

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1944 to February 1946

  42-96604 - USAAF (USA)


15 July 1944

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

Assigned to 1103rd AAF Base Unit, based at Morrison Field, FL, probably in preparation for being ferried accross the South Atlantic.

27 July 1944

Received major damage at Morrison Field, FL in a ground accident.

Pilot: Gene L. Clanton

15 November 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.