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Commando 42-96775

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96775

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30437

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU973

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-96775 - USAAF (USA)


20 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to 1951

  39560 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


20 September 1944

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

30 September 1944

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

18 December 1944

Assigned to VMR-352 based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

22 December 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35 based at MCAS El Centro, CA.

15 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 Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-25.

October 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

  1951 to unknown date

  3101 - FUERZA AEREA DOMINICANA (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)


1951

Purchased. [quoted as former 59360]

Assigned to Transport Squadron Pegasus based at San Isidro AB, Dominican Republic.

1965

Withdrawn from use and stored at San Isidro AB, Dominican Republic.