Commando 42-96723

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96723

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30385

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU921

FATE: Broken up

August 1944 to February 1946

42-96723 - USAAF (USA)

25 August 1944

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

6 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

25 October 1944

Received major damage between Chabua and Sookerating, Assam, India in a midair collision.

Pilot: Urie Clifford

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

6 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.