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Commando 43-47058

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47058

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 129

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK106

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47058 - USAAF (USA)


13 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to February 1946

  50695 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


13 December 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.

21 February 1946

Damaged beyond repair on Johnston Atoll in a landing accident.

The Commando overshot the runway on landing.

28 February 1946

Struck off charge.

Last edited: 14/03/2021