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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.