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Commando 41-12337

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-10-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12337

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26464

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU104

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  April 1943

  41-12337 - USAAF (USA)

15 April 1943

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

  April 1943 to 1943

  39495 - US NAVY (USA)

April 1943

Transferred as R5C-1.

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

  1943 to July 1956

  39495 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

1943

Assigned to MAG-15.

By August 1944

Assigned to VMR-952.

September 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35, based at MCAS El Centro, CA.

July 1945

Assigned to MAG-35 Service Squadron (Servron-35).

April 1946

Assigned to MAG-35.

  July 1956 to 1959

  N3954A - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

July 1956

Purchased and stored.

  1959 to 1964

  HP-238 - APA (AEROVIAS PANAMA AIRWAYS) (PANAMA)

1959

Purchased. [HP-238 erroneously attributed by some sources to 43-47201]

1960

Registered.

  1964 to 1966

  HP-238 - COPA (COMPANIA PANAMENA DE AVIACION) (PANAMA)

1964

Purchased.

  1966 to July 1968

  HP-238 - AVINAL (PANAMA)

1966

Purchased.

11 July 1968

Registration cancelled.

Last edited: 06/11/2021