Commando 42-101085

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101085

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30540

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1076

FATE: Written off

  September 1944

  42-101085 - USAAF (USA)

18 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to January 1946

  39579 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

18 September 1944

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

29 September 1944

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

December 1944

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

13 February 1945

Assigned to VMR-353, probably based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

7 January 1946

Damaged beyond repair in Tinian, Mariana Islands in a landing accident (no fatalities).

On final approach at Tinian, the aircraft crashed in a field short of the runway. All occupants walked out uninjured, but the Commando was destroyed.

31 January 1946

Struck off charge as Class 3-5-N. [?] [date 31 January 1945 according to AB, probably a typo]