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Commando 42-96632

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96632

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30294

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU830

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1944 to April 1946

  42-96632 - USAAF (USA)

19 July 1944

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

21 August 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

24 February 1945

Received major damage in Mangshih, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Elden Zachariasen

16 April 1946

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

Last edited: 05/02/2020