Commando 42-96778

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96778

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30440

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU976

FATE: Unknown

  September 1944

  42-96778 - USAAF (USA)

7 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to April 1947

  39563 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

7 September 1944

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

9 September 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35. [typo 9 April 1944 according to AB]

21 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.

February 1946

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

April 1946

Assigned to NAS Alameda, CA.

30 April 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.