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Commando 42-101104

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101104

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30559

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1095

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-101104 - USAAF (USA)


18 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to unknown date

  39578 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


18 September 1944

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

30 September 1944

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

December 1944

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

10 February 1945

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

January 1946

Assigned to VMR-252, probably based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

Last edited: 19/08/2020