Commando 42-96652

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96652

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30314

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU850

FATE: Unknown

  July 1944 to 1959

  42-96652 - USAAF (USA)

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20 July 1944

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

15 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

  July 1944 to 1959

  N9842F - UNKNOWN (USA)

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1959

Purchased, withdrawn from use and stored.

Fate unknown.

[probably initially a Riddle aircraft, according to the registration format]