Commando 42-96774

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96774

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30436

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU972

FATE: Unknown

  September 1944

  42-96774 - USAAF (USA)

6 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to November 1946

  39559 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

6 September 1944

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

9 October 1944

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

January 1945

Assigned to MAG-15 Service Squadron (Servron-15).

February 1945

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAW-2.

18 February 1946

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force Pacific (Air FMF Pac).

19 February 1946

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

25 February 1946

Assigned to MCAS El Centro, CA.

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 MAG-33 Service Squadron (Servron-33).

July 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-25 based at NAS San Diego, CA.

24 July 1946

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

31 October 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

30 November 1946

Struck off charge as surplus.