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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Withdrawn from use.