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Commando 43-47023

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47023

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 94

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK71

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  October 1944

  43-47023 - USAAF (USA)

26 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to June 1945

  39596 - 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.

6 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.

30 June 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Ulithi, Caroline Islands in an accident.

Pilot: Jack F. McCollum (survived, retired a Lt. Col. after fighting in Korea)

Struck off charge as Class 3-5-N.