Commando 42-96791

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96791

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30453

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU989

FATE: Broken up

September 1944 to February 1946

42-96791 - USAAF (USA)

1 September 1944

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

3 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

23 January 1945

Received major damage at Mohanbari, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Basil B. Mitchell

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.