Commando 43-47041

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

  November 1944

  43-47041 - USAAF (USA)

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11 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to July 1947

  39605 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

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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)

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July 1947

Probably transferred to the WAA.

  September 1947 to 1948

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

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September 1947

Purchased.

  1948 to March 1949

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

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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.