Commando 43-47033

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47033

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 104

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK81

FATE: Unknown

  October 1944

  43-47033 - USAAF (USA)

23 October 1944

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

  October 1944 to May 1947

  39597 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

23 October 1944

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

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

14 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.

27 April 1946

Assigned to MAG-25 based in Tsingtao, Shandong, China.

July 1946

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

2 May 1947

Damaged in Tsingtao, Shandong, China in a ground collision.

A Vought F4U-4 Corsair of VMF-211 collided with the Commando on the ground while taking off.

31 May 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.