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Commando 42-3624

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3624

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26757

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU397

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1944

  42-3624 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

25 January 1944

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

  January 1944

  42-3624 - USAAF (USA)

28 January 1944

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

  January 1944 to unknown date

  39539 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

29 January 1944

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

11 February 1944

US Navy Bureau Number assigned.

By October 1944

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

15 April 1946

Assigned to MAG-33.

May 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Stricken off charge as surplus.