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Commando 43-47045

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47045

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 116

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK93

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47045 - USAAF (USA)


21 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to September 1947

  39609 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


21 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.

October 1945

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

November 1945

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

April 1946

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

20 August 1946

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

November 1946

Assigned to Pearl Harbor, HI.

20 February 1947

Overhauled in Pearl Harbor, HI.

April 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

30 September 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

Last edited: 28/02/2021