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Commando 42-96627

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96627

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30289

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU825

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1944 to February 1946

  42-96627 - USAAF (USA)


15 July 1944

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

9 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

7 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.