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Commando 42-96630

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96630

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30292

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU828

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1944 to July 1946

  42-96630 - USAAF (USA)


13 July 1944

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

26 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

25 December 1944

Received major damage at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a taxi accident while operated by ground crew.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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