Commando 41-24736

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-25-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24736

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26657

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU297

FATE: Unknown

  October 1943 to December 1943

  41-24736 - USAAF (USA)

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29 October 1943

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

  December 1943 to February 1957

  39510 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

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9 December 1943

Transferred as R5C-1.

By August 1944

Assigned to VMR-952 based in Emirau, Bismarck Archipelago.

December 1944

VMR-952 joins the Transport Air Group, based in Guam, Mariana Islands.

February 1945

Participated with VMR-952 in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

May 1945

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

June 1945

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

October 1945

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

November 1945

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

January 1946

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

  February 1957 to June 1961

  N4088A - MARCO INDUSTRIES INC. (USA)

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February 1957

Purchased.

[Commando apparently sent to Cuba at some point?]

  June 1961 to September 1961

  N74817 - MADDEN & PLAYFORD AIRCRAFT (USA)

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June 1961

Purchased.

  September 1961 to 1962

  YV-C-BNB - AGUILAS VENEZOLANAS (VENEZUELA)

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September 1961

Purchased.

4 January 1962

Registered.

  1962 to 1968

  YV-C-BNB - TACA DE VENEZUELA (VENEZUELA)

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1962

Purchased.

1968

Withdrawn from use.

[TACA de Venezuela had already been taken over by LAV (Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) and fully absorbed by 1958... Is this a mistake, or was YV-C-BNB operated by LAV instead?]