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Commando 43-47020

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47020

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 91

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK68

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  October 1944

  43-47020 - USAAF (USA)


26 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to 1947

  39594 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


26 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.

March 1945

Assigned to VMR-253 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

April 1945

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-21.

June 1945

Assigned to VMR-253 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

April 1946

Assigned to VMR-153.

May 1947

Assigned to MAG-11 Fleet Aircraft Service Squadron (Fasron-11).

31 July 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

  1947 to May 1948

  39594 - WAA (WAR ASSETS ADMINISTRATION) (USA)


1947

Transferred to the War Assets Administration and stored.

  May 1948 to January 1949

  43-47020 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

Transferred, and reinstated at Hickam Field, HI.

1 July 1948

Redesginated as ZC-46A.

7 December 1948

Reclamation authorized.

7 January 1949

Reclamation completed.