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.