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Commando 42-96619

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96619

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30281

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU817

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1944 to January 1946

  42-96619 - USAAF (USA)


21 July 1944

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

21 August 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 3rd Air Depot Group, based at RAF Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.

25 May 1945

Damaged, probably at RAF Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: George W. Reid.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

21 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 04/02/2020