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Commando 42-96734

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96734

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30396

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU932

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  August 1944 to January 1946

  42-96734 - USAAF (USA)


28 August 1944

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

17 October 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

7 January 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.