Commando 42-96735
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
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: 1st 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.