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Commando 42-96703

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96703

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30365

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU901

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  August 1944 to September 1947

  42-96703 - USAAF (USA)


August 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, 807th AAF Base Unit based at Bergstrom AAF, TX.

8 January 1945

Damaged at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a taxi accident due to weather.

Pilot: Edwin B. Brown III

17 September 1945

Received major damage at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a ground collision.

Pilot: Newell Almond

  September 1947 to January 1965

  42-96703 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2466th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Atterbury AFB, IN.

26 August 1954

Received major damage at Atterbury AFB, IN in a ground accident due to weather while parked.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2346th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Hamilton AFB, CA.

29 August 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

20 January 1964

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  January 1965 to unknown date

  ????? - UNKNOWN (USA)


26 January 1965

Purchased less engines from USAF. Total airframe time 4,345 hours.

Fate unknown.