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Commando 42-96747

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96747

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30409

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU945

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  August 1944 to February 1946

  42-96747 - USAAF (USA)

30 August 1944

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

5 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

1 August 1945

Received major damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Rueben J. Svendsen

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.