Commando 42-3576

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3576

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26709

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU349

FATE: Written off

  December 1943

  42-3576 - USAAF (USA)

6 December 1943

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

  December 1943 to unknown date

  39520 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

13 December 1943

Transferred as R5C-1.

31 December 1943

Assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

By February 1945

Assigned to VMR-252 probably based in the Marianna Islands.

June 1945

Assigned to Servron-?. [unreadable]

October 1945

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

1 April 1946

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

29 April 1946

Assigned to MAG-33.

Unknown date

Assigned to MAG-33 Service Squadron (Servron-33).

5 June 1946

Assigned to VMR-253 based at MCAS Miramar, CA.

November 1946

Assigned to VMR-152 based in China.

January 1947

Assigned to MAG-25 Service Squadron (Servron-25).

February 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

June 1947

Stored at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.

September 1947

Assigned to NAS Columbus, OH.

  Unknown date to 1957

  N4094A - MARCO INDUSTRIES INC. (USA)

Unknown date

Purchased from US Navy.

  1957 to 1958

  N4094A - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

1957

Purchased and converted to Super 46C.

  1958 to June 1958

  OB-WAY-488 - TAPSA (TRANSPORTES AEREOS PERUANAS SA) (PERU)

1958

Purchased and given a temporary registration ("pasavante").

  June 1958 to May 1959

  OB-QAM-488 - TAPSA (TRANSPORTES AEREOS PERUANAS SA) (PERU)

9 June 1958

Reregistered.

8 May 1958

Damaged beyond repair after crashing on takeoff from Cuzco, Peru (0/5 fatalities).

Shortly after takeoff from Cuzco-Velazco Astete, the Commando stalled and crashed in flames in a field. All five occupants evacuated safely while the aircraft was partially destroyed.