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Commando 43-47010

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-5-CK Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47010

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 81

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK58

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944

  43-47010 - USAAF (USA)


16 October 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

  October 1944 to January 1947

  39586 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


16 October 1944

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

Sent to the Lockheed Modification Center at Dallas Love Field, TX.

31 October 1944

Delivered from the Lockheed Modification Center at Dallas Love Field, TX.

November 1944

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

July 1946

Assigned to VMR-253 based at MCAS Miramar, CA.

October 1946

Assigned to MAG-25 Service Squadron (Servron-25) based at MCAS El Toro, CA.

Unknown date

Assigned to AES-12 based at MCB Quantico, VA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as Class 7-8-Z.

Last edited: 02/01/2021