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Commando 42-96611

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96611

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30273

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU809

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to August 1945

  42-96611 - USAAF (USA)


12 July 1944

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

10 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

8 August 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Donald L. Harris

28 August 1945

Condemned for salvage.