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Commando 42-96639

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96639

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30301

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU837

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to October 1944

  42-96639 - USAAF (USA)

20 July 1944

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

26 August 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

29 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair 32 km north of Tsuyung Field, Yunnan, China in an accident following an engine fire (4/4 fatalities). [shot down by enemy forces according to FAG]

Pilot: 1st Lt Nelson Bolton

31 October 1944

Condemned for salvage.