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Commando 43-47021

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47021

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 92

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK69

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944

  43-47021 - USAAF (USA)

29 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to May 1945

  39595 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

25 October 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA. [date discrepancy]

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

2 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 1946

Assigned to VMR-153. [date discrepancy, possibly a typo, April 1945 instead?]

31 May 1945

Struck off charge as surplus.