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Commando 42-96752

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96752

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30414

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU950

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  August 1944 to January 1946

  42-96752 - USAAF (USA)


30 August 1944

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

13 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, Assam Wing, 1332nd AAF Base Unit based in Mohanbari, Assam, India.

14 December 1944

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

Pilot: James B. Tully Jr

23 July 1945

Damaged in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a ground accident.

Pilot: Ben M. Palmer

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.