Commando 42-96664

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96664

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30326

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU862

FATE: Unknown

  August 1944

  42-96664 - USAAF (USA)

9 August 1944

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

  August 1944 to December 1946

  39549 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

9 August 1944

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

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

2 September 1944

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.

31 December 1946

Struck off charge as surplus.