Commando 42-96635
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96635
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30297
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU833
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
July 1944 to April 1946
42-96635 - USAAF (USA)
21 July 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY .
1 September 1944
Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.
November 1944
Moved with 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.
14 January 1945
Moved with 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Sookerating, Assam, India.
31 March 1945
Damaged in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a ground accident.
Pilot: Richard T. Clark
Unknown date
Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.
April 1946 to August 1965
????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)
15 April 1946
Purchased.
1948
Withdrawn from use.