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Commando 42-96636

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96636

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30298

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU834

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1944 to January 1946

  42-96636 - USAAF (USA)


15 July 1944

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

17 August 1944

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

24 August 1945

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

Pilot: John L. Bryan

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.