Commando 41-12341

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12341

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26468

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU108

FATE: Written off

  April 1943

  41-12341 - USAAF (USA)

15 April 1943

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

  April 1943 to July 1957

  39496 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

15 April 1943

Transferred as R5C-1.

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

16 May 1943

Returned to Curtiss-Wright at Buffalo, NY, presumably for modifications.

5 July 1943

Assigned back to NAS San Diego, CA.

By August 1944

Assigned to MAW-4, VMJ-252.

September 1944

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

March 1945

Assigned back to NAS San Diego, CA.

June 1945

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), Marine Fleet Air, West Coast.

July 1945

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

October 1945

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

  July 1957 to unknown date

  CC-CIB-0504 - LINEAS AEREAS INTERPOLAR (CHILE)

July 1957

Purchased from US Navy and christened "El Roto Gallo" ("the Broken Rooster").

  Unknown date to November 1964

  CC-CIB - ALFA (AEROLINEAS FLECHA AUSTRAL) (CHILE)

Unknown date

Purchased.

24 November 1964

Damaged beyond repair in Santiago de Chile Los Cerillos, Chile in a landing accident (no fatalities).