Commando 43-47012

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47012

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 83

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK60

FATE: Unknown

  October 1944

  43-47012 - USAAF (USA)

18 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to 1956

  39588 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

18 October 1944

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

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

1 November 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.

April 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

9 September 1946

Reconditioned at NAS San Diego, CA.

October 1946

Stored at NAS South Weymouth, MA.

November 1946

Stored at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.

  1956 to June 1957

  N4159A - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

1956

Purchased.

  June 1957 to July 1957

  N4159A - AVIATION EQUIPMENT EXPORT (USA)

June 1957

Purchased.

25 July 1957

Registration cancelled, export to Brazil.

  July 1957 to August 1957

  PP-NBM - AERONORTE (BRAZIL)

1 July 1957

Purchased, but probably not taken up.

  August 1957 to February 1962

  PP-NAP - NAB (NAVEGACAO AEREA BRASILEIRA) (BRAZIL)

12 August 1957

Purchased.

12 November 1957

Leased to Brasil Agripeco Importadora.

12 November 1958

Returned from lease with Brasil Agripeco Importadora.

Right: PP-NAP appeared in a flight sequence of the 1965 French movie "Fantomas Strikes Back".
Photo credit: Sixcyl / International Movie Plane Database IMPDB.org

  February 1962 to June 1968

  PP-NAP - VASP (VIACAO AEREA SAO PAULO) (BRAZIL)

February 1962

Leased from NAB.

Left: PP-NAP in VASP colors seen at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil in January 1968.
Photo credit: Helio Bastos Salmon / Airliners.net

  June 1968 to unknown date

  PP-NAP - SAVA (SERVICIOS AEREOS DO VALE AMAZONICO) (BRAZIL)

17 June 1968

Purchased.

August 1973

Withdrawn from use and stored in Manaus, Brazil.

Fate unknown.

Right: PP-NAP in SAVA colors seen at Rio de Janeiro Manguinhos, Brazil on 25 April 1972.
Photo credit: Vito Cedrini / Airliners.net