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Commando 42-96670

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96670

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30332

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU868

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1944 to August 1945

  42-96670 - USAAF (USA)


27 July 1944

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

21 August 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

2 August 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Chabua, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Theodore R. Gore

7 August 1945

Condemned for salvage.