Commando 43-47030

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47030

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 101 (II) [not to be confused with 101 (I)]

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK78

FATE: Written off

  October 1944

  43-47030 - USAAF (USA)

28 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to July 1956

  39603 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

28 October 1944

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

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

13 November 1944

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

November 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

27 April 1945

Assigned to VMR-952 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

April 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

18 August 1947

Overhauled at NAS San Diego, CA.

November 1947

Assigned to MAG-15 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

December 1947

Assigned to VMR-153 based in Tsingtao, Shandong, China.

Unknown date

Struck off charge.

  July 1956 to August 1956

  LV-PAX - AEROVIAS PANCONTINENTAL (ARGENTINA)

July 1956

Leased. [often erroneously quoted as LV-PAZ]

Right: LV-PAX wearing Aerovias Pancontinental titles.
Photo credit: Harold G. Martin / Roll Out

  August 1956 to December 1957

  LV-FLF - AEROVIAS PANCONTINENTAL (ARGENTINA)

22 August 1956

Reregistered.

14 November 1956

Purchased by Carlos A. Manzini, to be operated by his airline Aerovias Pancontinental.

December 1956

Transferred to Carlos A. Manzini's airline project Aerovias Buenos Aires.

21 August 1957

Received its last inspection under this registration.

  December 1957 to February 1958

  N7866B - PRIVATE (USA)

10 December 1957

Registered to Louis A. Sabatino. [claimed as having been registered as early as 1955, but no document comes to support this]

27 February 1958

Registration cancelled, exported to the Dominican Republic.

  1968 to ca 1973

  HI-189 - ALAS DEL CARIBE (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

1968

Purchased. [the Commando seems to have been imported ten years earlier in the country, so there may have been another Dominican operator and/or owner before 1968]

  ca 1973 to 1978

  HI-189 - AEROMAR (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

ca 1973

Purchased. [sometimes quoted as operating for Aeromar already by September 1970]

Left: HI-189 at Santo Domingo Las Americas, Dominican Republic in September 1974.
Photo credit: Werner Fischdick / ASN

  1978 to August 1979

  HI-189 - PRIVATE (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

1978

Purchased by Amin Canaan.

31 August 1979

Destroyed at Santo Domingo Las Americas, Dominican Republic in a ground accident (no fatalities).

During the passage of Hurricane David, the parked Commando was blown onto the roof of a building.