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Commando 43-47040

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47040

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 111

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK88

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47040 - USAAF (USA)


14 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to July 1947

  39604 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


14 November 1944

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

November 1944

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

March 1945

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

April 1946

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

11 June 1947

Assigned to MAG-11 Fleet Air Support Squadron (Fasron-11) based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

31 July 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

  July 1947 to May 1948

  39604 - WAA (WAR ASSETS ADMINISTRATION) (USA)


ca July 1947

Transferred.

Used as ground mockup for transport troop training in Hawaii.

  May 1948

  43-47040 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

Transferred.

  May 1948 to unknown date

  39604 - US NAVY (USA)


26 May 1948

Transferred.

Fate unknown.

Last edited: 27/02/2021