Commando 42-3584

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3584

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26717

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU357

FATE: Unknown

  December 1943

  42-3584 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

19 December 1943

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3584 - USAAF (USA)

31 December 1943

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

  January 1944 to unknown date

  39530 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

17 January 1944

Transferred as R5C-1.

October 1944

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

June 1945

Assigned to MAG-35 Service Squadron (Servron-35).

July 1945

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

4 June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

Right: 39530 wearing a very USAAF-like camouflage scheme at MCAS Miramar, CA on 24 May 1946. A lot of PB4Y-2s can be seen in the background.
Photo credit: Bill Larkins / Flickr