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Commando 42-3623

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3623

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26756

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU396

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1944

  42-3623 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


20 January 1944

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

  January 1944

  42-3623 - USAAF (USA)


24 January 1944

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

  January 1944 to unknown date

  39534 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


17 January 1944

Transferred as R5C-1. Date is assignment date.

24 January 1944

Assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

By August 1944

Assigned to VMR-252.

January 1945

Assigned to MAG-15 Service Squadron (Servron-15).

February 1945

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

June 1945

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), Marine Fleet Air West Coast.

July 1945

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

31 August 1945

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

February 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

23 May 1946

Reconditionned at NAS San Diego, CA.

Unknown date

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

1 June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

June 1946

Stored at NAS South Weymouth, MA.

16 November 1946

Stored at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.

February 1948

Stored at NAS Colombus, OH.

Last edited: 13/05/2019