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Commando 42-3622

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3622

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26755

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU395

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1944

  42-3622 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


6 January 1944

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

  January 1944

  42-3622 - USAAF (USA)


19 January 1944

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

  January 1944 to 1960

  ????? - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


21 January 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC. US Navy Bureau Number unknown.

  1960 to May 1970

  3104 - FUERZA AEREA DOMINICANA (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)


1960

Purchased.

Assigned to Transport Squadron Pegasus based at San Isidro AB, Dominican Republic.

  May 1970 to 1974

  N9070 - BELLOMY-LAWSON AVIATION (USA)


May 1970

Purchased.

July 1970

Seen for sale in Miami, FL.

  1974 to March 1976

  AN-BGU - LANICA (LINEAS AEREAS DE NICARAGUA) (NICARAGUA)


By 1974

Purchased.

17 March 1976

Damaged beyond repair in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.

Last edited: 13/05/2019