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Commando 42-96658

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96658

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30320

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU856

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to November 1944

  42-96658 - USAAF (USA)


31 July 1944

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

24 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division, 1252nd AAF Base Unit based at Casablanca Cazes AB, French Morocco.

15 November 1944

Damaged beyond repair at RAF Castel Benito, Libya in an accident (fatalities).

Pilot: 1st Lt Herman Lopez (killed)

Condemned for salvage. [date also erroneously reported as 16 November 1944]