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 to unknown date
N4099A - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)
1959
Purchased. Fate unknown, maybe parted out.