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Commando 42-96620

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96620

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30282

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU818

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1944 to July 1946

  42-96620 - USAAF (USA)

13 July 1944

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

11 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

12 July 1945

Received major damage at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a taxi accident while parked.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.