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Commando 42-101069

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101069

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30524

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1060

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-101069 - USAAF (USA)


18 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to unknown date

  39580 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


18 September 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.

October 1944

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

December 1944

Assigned to VMR-352, probably based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

February 1945

Assigned to VMR-152 or VMR-153.

Unknown date

Assigned to VMR-353.

24 May 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands in unknown circumstances.

31 May 1945

Struck off charge as Class 3-1-D.

Last edited: 25/09/2020