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Commando 43-47043

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47043

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 114

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK91

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47043 - USAAF (USA)

12 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to May 1945

  39607 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

17 November 1944

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

November 1944

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

20 March 1945

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

Unknown

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

24 May 1945

Damaged, probably beyond repair, on Guam, Marianna Islands.

31 May 1945

Struck off charge, Class 3-1-Z.