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Commando 42-96795

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96795

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30457

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU993

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to October 1945

  42-96795 - USAAF (USA)


4 September 1944

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

Assigned to 1st Operational Training Unit (1 OTU), C Squadron based at Rosecrans Field, MO.

30 March 1945

Damaged at Rosecrans Field, MO in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Donald R. Rahn

10 September 1945

Surveyed.

15 October 1945

Reclamation completed.