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Commando 42-96770

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96770

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30432

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU968

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-96770 - USAAF (USA)

7 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to January 1947

  39555 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

7 September 1944

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

10 September 1944

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

30 April 1946

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

June 1946

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

24 July 1946

Assigned to MAG-25 Service Squadron (Servron-25).

25 July 1946

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

August 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.