Commando 43-47061

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47061

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 132

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK109

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944

  43-47061 - USAAF (USA)

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13 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to 1956

  50698 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

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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.

July 1945

Assigned to VMR-252.

June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

17 October 1946

Reconditioned at NAS San Diego, CA.

October 1946

Assigned to VMR-253 based at MCAS Miramar, CA.

November 1946

Assigned to VMR-152.

January 1947

Assigned to MAG-25 Service Squadron (Servron 25).

March 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

April 1947

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

May 1948

Assigned to VMR-153 based in Tsingtao, Shandong, China.

  1956 to October 1961

  N7761B - AAXICO (USA)

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1956

Purchased.

23 June 1961

Registration cancelled, exported to Venezuela.

  October 1961 to May 1968

  YV-C-LBS - LEBCA (LINEA EXPRESA BOLIVAR CA) (VENEZUELA)

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13 October 1961

Registered.

 

Below: YV-C-LBS in LEBCA colors, date & location unknown.
Photo credit: Bill Thompson / JJPostCards

  May 1968 to 1972

  YV-C-TGF - TIGRES VOLADORES (VENEZUELA)

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23 May 1968

Purchased.

 

Right: Tigres Voladores' YV-C-TGF, unknown date & location.
Photo credit: unknown

  1972 to 1977

  YV-C-TGF - LATIN CARGA (VENEZUELA)

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23 May 1968

Purchased.

1977

Withdrawn from use.

Fate unknown.