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Commando 42-101076

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101076

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30531

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1067

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-101076 - USAAF (USA)


15 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to February 1957

  39572 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


15 September 1944

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

26 September 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-353, based on Saipan, Mariana Islands.

October 1945

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-33.

February 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-15.

March 1946

Assigned to MCAS Ewa, HI. [cited at "Pearl Harbor"]

April 1946

Assigned to NAS Alameda, CA.

30 November 1946

Struck off charge as surplus.

  February 1957 to unknown date

  N4098A - MARCO INDUSTRIES INC. (USA)


18 February 1957

Purchased.

Fate unknown.