Commando 43-47042

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47042

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 113

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK90

FATE: Unknown

  November 1944

  43-47042 - USAAF (USA)

16 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to May 1947

  39606 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

16 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.

June 1945

Assigned to VMR-953 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

August 1945

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

30 April 1946

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

June 1946

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

17 February 1947

Overhauled at Pearl Harbor, HI.

31 May 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

[This Commando is sometimes confused with 42-47062, which was later registered N7762B]