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Commando 42-96827

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96827

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30489

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1025

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944 to July 1946

  42-96827 - USAAF (USA)


25 September 1944

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

30 october 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 10/08/2020