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Commando 42-3587

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3587

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26720

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU360

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1943

  42-3587 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


18 December 1943

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

  December 1943 to February 1944

  42-3587 - USAAF (USA)


31 December 1943

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

  February 1944 to unknown date

  39533 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


1 February 1944

Transferred as R5C-1. [date quoted as 11 January 1944 by several sources]

By August 1944

Assigned to VMR-252.

March 1945

Assigned to VMR-953 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

April 1945

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

28 August 1945

Assigned to Marine Fleet Air West Coast.

29 August 1945

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

26 September 1945

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

November 1945

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

February 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

March 1946

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

April 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

Unknown date

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

5 June 1946

Assigned to VMR-252.

July 1947

Assigned to NAS Norfolk, VA.

30 November 1947

Struck off charge as surplus at NAS Norfolk, VA.