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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.