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Commando 42-96714

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96714

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30376

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU912

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  August 1944 to January 1946

  42-96714 - USAAF (USA)


30 August 1944

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

5 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.