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Commando 42-96643

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96643

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30305

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU841

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to August 1945

  42-96643 - USAAF (USA)


23 July 1944

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

20 August 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

20 August 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a belly landing.

Pilot: Kenneth E. Ginnow

Condemned for salvage.