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Commando 43-47017

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47017

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 88

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK65

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944

  43-47017 - USAAF (USA)


20 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to April 1947

  39593 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


20 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.

29 June 1945

Assigned to MAG-35, VMR-352 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

April 1946

Assigned to NAS Alameda, CA.

30 April 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

Fate unknown.