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Commando 43-47060

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47060

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 131

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK108

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47060 - USAAF (USA)


1 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to unknown date

  50697 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


1 December 1944

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

7 December 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), Marine Fleet Air, West Coast.

11 December 1944

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

February 1945

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

17 May 1945

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

30 May 1945

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

May 1946

Assigned to VMR-252.

June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

August 1947

Assigned to NAS Columbus, OH.

Unknown date

Assigned to MAG-11, VMR-153 based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

5 August 1950

Damaged beyond repair at Biggs AFB, TX in a ground accident.

Pilot: George W. Ross