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Commando 43-47064

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47064

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 135

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK112

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47064 - USAAF (USA)


14 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to July 1947

  50701 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


14 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.

June 1945

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

May 1947

Assigned to VMR-252 based at MCAS El Toro, CA.

Unknown date

Assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

31 July 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.