Commando 43-47016

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47016

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 87

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK64

FATE: Written off

  October 1944

  43-47016 - USAAF (USA)

19 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to November 1945

  39592 - 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.

9 November 1944

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

November 1944

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

22 January 1945

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

February 1945

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

March 1945

Assigned to VMR-252 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

19 November 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Hishi-no-Shima, Japan in a forced landing (no fatalities). [location not identified, probably Nishinoshima, which could correspond to several places in Japan]

31 November 1945

Struck off charge as Class 3-5-Z.