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Commando 43-47055

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47055

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 126

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK103

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47055 - USAAF (USA)

28 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to September 1945

  50692 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

28 November 1944

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

December 1944

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

February 1945

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

15 May 1945

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

3 September 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Harmon Field, Guam, Marianna Islands in an undercarriage collapse during takeoff.

30 September 1945

Struck off charge, Class 4-5-J.