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Commando 43-47041

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47041

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 112

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK89

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47041 - USAAF (USA)


11 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to July 1947

  39605 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


12 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.

27 April 1946

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

July 1946

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

31 July 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

  July 1947 to September 1947

  39605 - WAA (WAR ASSETS ADMINISTRATION) (USA)


July 1947

Probably transferred to the WAA.

  September 1947 to 1948

  C-63 - LATCO (LINEAS AEREAS TRANSATLANTICAS COLOMBIANAS) (COLOMBIA)


September 1947

Purchased.

  1948 to March 1949

  HK-63 - LATCO (LINEAS AEREAS TRANSATLANTICAS COLOMBIANAS) (COLOMBIA)


1948

Reregistered.

22 March 1949

Destroyed by fire in Barranquilla, Colombia (no fatalities).

The Commando caught fire on the ground. Two workers were injured and the airframe was a writeoff.

Last edited: 27/02/2021