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Commando 42-3619

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3619

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26752

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU392

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1944

  42-3619 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


6 January 1944

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

  January 1944

  42-3619 - USAAF (USA)


24 January 1944

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

  January 1944 to 1959

  39538 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


25 January 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

By August 1944

Assigned to VMR-252.

March 1945

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

April 1945

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

July 1945

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

March 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

23 July 1946

Reconditionned at NAS San Diego, CA.

July 1946

Stored at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.

  Unknown date to 1959

  N4099A - MARCO INDUSTRIES INC. (USA)


Unknown date

Probably purchased from US Navy by Marco Industries Inc. [personal assessment based on civilian registration sequence]

  1959

  N4099A - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)


1959

Purchased.

20 June 1958

Registration cancelled, exported to the Dominican Republic. [dates discrepancy]

  Circa 1959

  HI-??? - UNKNOWN OPERATOR (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)


Circa 1959

Purchased.

Last edited: 07/08/2024