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Commando 43-47011

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47011

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 82

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK59

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944

  43-47011 - USAAF (USA)


16 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to May 1961

  39587 - 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.

January 1945

Assigned to MAG-15 Service Squadron (Servron-15) based at Apamama, Gilbert Islands.

February 1945

Assigned to VMR-252.

January 1946

Assigned to VMR-353 based on Saipan, Marianna Islands.

February 1946

Assigned to MAG-35 Service Squadron (Servron-35) based at MCAS El Centro, CA.

1 April 1946

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

29 April 1946

Assigned to MAG-33 based at MCAS El Toro, CA.

June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

February 1947

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

6 June 1947

Assigned to VMR-153 based in Tsingtao, Shandong, China.

  May 1961 to August 1962

  N4158A - PRIVATE (USA)


9 May 1961

Registered to Ralph W. Rensink of Lewiston, ID.

23 February 1962

Registration cancelled, export to Panama.

  August 1962 to December 1966

  HP-344 - AEROVIAS INTERNACIONAL BALBOA (PANAMA)


August 1962

Purchased.

 

Right: HP-344 in Balboa colors, unknown date & location.
Photo credit: Brian Stainer / NA3T.org

  December 1966 to 1968

  HP-344 - FRANCIS AUGUSTUS CONNER (USA)


December 1966

Purchased. [TBC]

  1968 to 1970

  HP-344 - AFISA (AEROFLETES INTERNACIONALES SA) (PANAMA)


1968

Leased from Francis Augustus Conner.

21 November 1968

Received major damage in Miami, FL.

  1970 to unknown date

  HI-158 - AEROMAR (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)


1970

Leased from Francis Augustus Conner. [prior to September 1970]

1976

Withdrawn from use and stored.

Last edited: 03/01/2021