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Commando 42-3657

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3657

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26790

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU430

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1944 to February 1944

  42-3657 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


28 January 1944

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

  February 1944

  42-3657 - USAAF (USA)


7 February 1944

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

  February 1944 to unknown date

  39542 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


7 February 1944

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

11 February 1944

US Navy Bureau Number assigned.

By August 1944

Assigned to VMR-252, based at Emirau, Bismarck Archipelago.

May 1945

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

June 1945

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

5 July 1945

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

November 1945

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

December 1945

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

February 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

Unknown date

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

1 June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

10 June 1946

Reconditionned at NAS San Diego, CA.

18 June 1945

Stored at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.

[This Serial is quoted as “unknown Bu.No.” by JB & PL. For them, Bu.No.39542 is Serial 42-3667.]

Last edited: 19/05/2019