Commando 42-3586

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3586

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26719

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU359

FATE: Unknown

  December 1943

  42-3586 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

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20 December 1943

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

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3586 - USAAF (USA)

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31 December 1943

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

  January 1944 to unknown date

  39532 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

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17 January 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC. [date quoted as 11 January 1944 by several sources]

By August 1944

Assigned to VMR-952 based in Emirau, Bismarck Archipelago.

May 1945

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

June 1945

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

August 1945

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

March 1946

Assigned to Marine Fleet Air West Coast.

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).

13 June 1946

Assigned to VMR-253.

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.

30 June 1947

Struck off charge as surplus at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.