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Commando 42-96725

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96725

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30387

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU923

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  August 1944 to July 1945

  42-96725 - USAAF (USA)


28 August 1944

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

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

18 October 1944

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

Pilot: Clyde B. McNeill

8 November 1944

Damaged at Reno AAF, NV in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Milton R. Buls

2 January 1945

Damaged at Reno AAF, NV in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Thomas E. Karnes Jr

Unknown date

Apparently assigned to the 3rd Ferrying Group.

8 July 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Reno AAF, NV in a landing accident.

Pilot: Kenneth D. Johnson

14 July 1945

Surveyed.