Commando 42-96659

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96659

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30321

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU857

FATE: Unknown

  August 1944

  42-96659 - USAAF (USA)

3 August 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

  August 1944 to November 1946

  39544 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

3 August 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.

Assigned to VMR-953, based at Corvallis AAF, OR.

30 September 1944

Moved with VMR-953 to MCAS Ewa, HI.

Operated flights extending into Pacific combat areas including Leyte in December 1944 and Okinawa in May 1945.

March 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-15.

April 1946

Assigned to NAS Alameda, CA.

30 November 1946

Struck off charge as Class 7-8-Z. [?]