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Commando 42-96736

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96736

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30398

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU934

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  August 1944 to October 1944

  42-96736 - USAAF (USA)

28 August 1944

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

1 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

20 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Kwanchan, China [location not identified].

Pilot: Harold E. Lambert

23 October 1944

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.