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Commando 42-96813

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96813

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30475

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1011

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944

  42-96813 - USAAF (USA)

16 September 1944

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

  September 1944 to 1954

  39583 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

18 September 1944

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

Unknown date

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

30 April 1945

Struck off charge as Class 4-5-N.