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Commando 42-96828

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96828

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30490

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1026

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944 to November 1945

  42-96828 - USAAF (USA)

21 September 1944

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

Assigned to the 1st Operational Training Unit (1 OTU), 561st AAF Base Unit, C Squadron based at Rosecrans Field, MO.

14 June 1945

Damaged at Rosecrans Field, MO in a ground accident while parked.

  November 1945 to 1949

  42-96828 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

6 November 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

  1949

  N79974 - PRIVATE (USA)

1949

Purchased from RFC by E. H. Pickering & Fred N. Stones.

  1949 to unknown date

  N79974 - PRIVATE (USA)

1949

Purchased by John Scura of New York, NY.

Last edited: 01/09/2020