Commando 42-96692

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96692

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30354

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU890

FATE: Broken up

  August 1944 to April 1947

  42-96692 - USAAF (USA)

7 August 1944

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

18 August 1944

Assigned to Air Transport Command Domestic Wing, 4^th Ferrying Group based at Berry Field, TN.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 3^rd Operational Training Unit (3 OTU), 565^th AAF Base Unit, based at Reno AAF, NV.

19 September 1944

Received major damage at Reno AAF, NV in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Mathias B. Setness

31 May 1946

Withdrawn from use at Sedalia AAF, MO as Class 01Z and used for ground instruction.

30 April 1947

Sent for reclamation at Sedalia AAF, MO.

24 April 1947

Reclamation completed at Sedalia AAF, MO. [dates discrepancy]