Commando 42-96742

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96742

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30404

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU940

FATE: Broken up

  August 1944 to September 1947

  42-96742 - USAAF (USA)

28 August 1944

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

18 October 1944

Assigned to Air Transport Command Domestic Division, 533^rd AAF Base Unit based at Brookley Field, AL and stored.

3 December 1944

Taken out of storage at Brookley Field, AL.

11 January 1945

Assigned to Oahu, HI.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines .

  September 1947 to April 1948

  42-96742 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

19 June 1947

Condemned for salvage, obsolete.

29 April 1948

Reclamation completed.

[JB makes a major mixup with two other Commandos: 42-61071 and 42-96724]