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Commando 43-47029

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47029

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 100

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK77

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47029 - USAAF (USA)


1 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to unknown date

  39602 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


1 November 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.

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

27 December 1944

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

January 1945

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

March 1945

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

June 1945

Assigned to VMR-153.

29 August 1946

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

November 1946

Assigned to Pearl Harbor, HI.

17 February 1947

Overhauled, possibly in Pearl Harbor, HI.

April 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

1 August 1947

Overhauled at NAS San Diego, CA.

August 1947

Assigned to VMR-252 based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

January 1956

Struck off charge at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.

Last edited: 24/02/2021