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Commando 42-96660

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96660

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30322

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU858

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  August 1944

  42-96660 - USAAF (USA)

3 August 1944

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

  August 1944 to January 1947

  39545 - 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.

February 1946

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

1 April 1946

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

29 April 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-33.

June 1946

Assigned to San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.