Commando 42-96653

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96653

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30315

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU851

FATE: Unknown

July 1944 to July 1946

42-96653 - USAAF (USA)

27 July 1944

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

25 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

27 May 1945

Received major damage at Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco in a crash landing.

Pilot: Paul D. Wilburn

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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