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Commando 43-47028

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47028

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 99

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK76

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944

  43-47028 - USAAF (USA)


27 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to July 1947

  39601 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


27 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.

9 November 1944

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

November 1944

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

April 1945

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

June 1945

Assigned to VMR-153.

31 July 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.