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Commando 43-47049

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47049

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 120

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK97

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47049 - USAAF (USA)

21 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to June 1956

  50691 - 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.

February 1945

Assigned to VMR-352 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

May 1945

Assigned to VMR-952 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

June 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

30 September 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

[This Commando is sometimes identified as the late N4880V. However, the later is quoted by the FAA as "S/N 1623", making it more likely 44-77691 which is CU1623]