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Commando 43-47044

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47044

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 115

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK92

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47044 - USAAF (USA)


25 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to August 1945

  39608 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


22 November 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA. [date discrepancy]

November 1944

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

March 1945

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

16 June 1945

Assigned to MAG-21 Service Squadron (Servron-21) based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

21 June 1945

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

24 May 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Okinawa, Japan.

31 August 1945

Struck off charge, Class 7-1-D.

Last edited: 28/02/2021