Commando 42-96668

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96668

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30330

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU866

FATE: Unknown

  August 1944

  42-96668 - USAAF (USA)

14 August 1944

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

  August 1944 to January 1947

  39553 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

14 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.

17 January 1946

Assigned to Marine Fleet Air, West Coast.

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.

May 1946

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

24 July 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-25 (Servron-25).

September 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.