Commando 42-96745
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96745
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30407
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU943
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
August 1944 to February 1946
42-96745 - USAAF (USA)
29 August 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
1 October 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Division.
Unknown date
Assigned to 559th AAF Base Unit based at Rosecrans Field, MO, probably with the 1st Operational Training Unit (1 OTU).
10 September 1945
Received major damage 2 km west of Rosecrans Field, MO (thence in KS) in a crash-landing following an engine failure.
Pilot: Horace J. Enser
[strange to see this Commando go to India, come back to the USA and then end up in Karachi: AAIR cn error?]
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
8 February 1946
Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.