Commando 42-96758
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96758
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30420
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU956
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
September 1944 to unknown date
42-96758 - USAAF (USA)
2 September 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
6 October 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Division.
18 March 1945
Received major damage in the China-Burma-India theatre in a bird strike.
Pilot: Richard J. Lentz
Fate uncertain from this point on, with sources giving discordant information:
- According to Joe Baugher and AMARC Experience: transferred to the USAF and later assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ on 8 April 1964.
- According to Air Britain: assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India at the end of the war and condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission on 23 January 1946.