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Commando 42-96634

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96634

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30296

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU832

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1944 to February 1946

  42-96634 - USAAF (USA)


19 July 1944

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

20 August 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1333rd AAF Base Unit based in Chabua, Assam, India.

28 July 1945

Damaged in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a ground accident.

Pilot: James K. Robinson

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.