Commando 42-96743
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96743
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30405
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU941
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
August 1944 to September 1947
42-96743 - USAAF (USA)
31 August 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
12 October 1944
Assigned to Air Transport Command Domestic Division, 533rd AAF Base Unit based at Brookley Field, AL and stored.
1 December 1944
Taken out of storage at Brookley Field, AL.
11 January 1945
Assigned to Oahu, HI.
Unknown date
Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.
18 March 1946
Received minor damage in Guam, Marianna Islands [most likely at Harmon Field] in a ground collision.
Pilot: James F. Bouwkamp
September 1947 to April 1948
42-96743 - USAF (USA)
18 September 1947
Transferred.
16 July 1947
Condemned for salvage, obsolete.
29 April 1948
Reclamation completed.