Commando 42-96762

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96762

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30424

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU960

FATE: Written off

  August 1944 to October 1944

  42-96762 - USAAF (USA)

31 August 1944

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

4 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

16 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a crash landing (fatalities).

Pilot: 1^st Lt Loren B. Wiedman (killed)

18 October 1944

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.

[mixed up by AB with 42-96772 which became XA-NUD]