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Commando 43-47057

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47057

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 128

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK105

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944

  43-47057 - USAAF (USA)


30 November 1944

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

  November 1944 to January 1947

  50694 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


30 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.

May 1945

Assigned to VMR-953 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

June 1945

Assigned to MAG-21 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

March 1946

Assigned to MAG-15 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

April 1946

Assigned to VMR-952.

30 June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

31 January 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

Last edited: 14/03/2021