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Commando 42-96754

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96754

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30416

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU952

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  August 1944 to February 1946

  42-96754 - USAAF (USA)


15 August 1944

Involved in a ground accident at the Curtiss plant in Buffalo, NY which probably killed a ground personnel.

Pilot: 2nd Lt Nelson Davis

30 August 1944

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

15 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

11 April 1945

Received major damage in Sookerating, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Warren G. Sanford

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.