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Commando 42-96777

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96777

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30439

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU975

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-96777 - USAAF (USA)


6 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to January 1947

  39562 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


6 September 1944

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

10 September 1944

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

26 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.

21 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.

June 1946

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

24 July 1946

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

July 1946

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

Unknown date

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.