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Commando 41-12303

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-5-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12303

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26430

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU70

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  February 1943

  41-12303 - USAAF (USA)

27 February 1943

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

  February 1943 to unknown date

  39493 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

27 February 1943

Transferred as R5C-1 and assigned to MAG-15, based at Camp Kearny, CA.

19 March 1943

Assigned to the newly established VMJ-353, based at Camp Kearny, CA.

By September 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.

9 April 1946

Assigned to MAG-33, based at MCAS El Centro, CA.

Last edited: 15/05/2019