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Commando 42-96623

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96623

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30285

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU821

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1944 to May 1945

  42-96623 - USAAF (USA)

15 July 1944

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

Probably assigned to the 2nd Combat Cargo Group based at Syracuse AAB, NY.

13 September 1944

Assigned to Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

1 May 1945

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

Last edited: 04/05/2020