Commando 43-47014

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47014

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 85

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK62

FATE: Written off

  October 1944

  43-47014 - USAAF (USA)

19 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to unknown date

  39590 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

19 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.

24 January 1945

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

February 1945

Assigned to VMR-952 based in Guam, Marianna Islands.

Probably participated to the Iwo Jima campaign.

November 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

11 March 1947

Overhauled at NAS San Diego, CA.

4 April 1947

Assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

June 1947

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

April 1955

Struck off charge at Kirtland AFB, NM.

  Unknown date to January 1965

  43-47014 - USAF (USA)

Unknown date

Apparently transferred back to the USAF, possibly through the War Assets Administration.

Assigned to the 2596^th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Hensley Field, TX.

14 March 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

2 February 1959

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  January 1965 to unknown date

  N????? - C-46 PARTS INC. (USA)

24 January 1965

Purchased less engines from USAF. Total airframe time 3,479 hours.

[date probably 26 January 1965 instead, operator probable but TBC]

  Unknown dates

  CP-1063 (II) - UNKNOWN (BOLIVIA)

Unknown date

Purchased.

Fate unknown.

[this Commando is sometimes confused with 44-77563, which crashed in Bolivia on 24 April 1975]