Commando 42-96735

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96735

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30397

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU933

FATE: Broken up

  August 1944 to February 1946

  42-96735 - USAAF (USA)

28 August 1944

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

3 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

4 December 1944

Received major damage in Sookerating, Assam, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: 1^st Lt Preston E. Rice (survived and later became a USAF Colonel, fought in Korea & Vietnam)

5 December 1944

Condemned for salvage, but probably later reinstated.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.