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Commando 42-96613

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96613

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30275

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU811

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to February 1945

  42-96613 - USAAF (USA)


13 July 1944

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

29 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

10 February 1945

Destroyed by fire on the ground at RAF Jiwani, Baluchistan, India.

Pilot: Robert L. Madden

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.