Commando 42-96616
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96616
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30278
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU814
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
July 1944 to January 1946
42-96616 - USAAF (USA)
11 July 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
7 August 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Division.
25 October 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Division.
8 November 1944
Received major damage ar RAF Barrackpore, Bengal, India in a belly landing.
Pilot: David H. Dorsey
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
21 January 1946
Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.