Commando 43-47076

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47076

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 147

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK124

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944

  43-47076 - USAAF (USA)

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17 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to June 1956

  50703 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

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17 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-253 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

April 1946

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

Unknown date

Assigned to MAG-11 Fleet Air Support Squadron (Fasron-11).

October 1946

Assigned to Pearl Harbor, HI.

May 1948

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

  June 1956 to November 1956

  N7764B - AAXICO (USA)

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June 1956

Purchased.

28 November 1956

Registered.

Not taken up.

  November 1956

  N7764B - TRANS AIR LEASING CORPORATION (USA)

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November 1956

Purchased.

  November 1956 to January 1957

  N7764B - PRIVATE (USA)

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21 November 1956

Purchased by L. J. Lederer & M. R. Cole.

[registration noted by the FAA as cancelled on 27 March 1958 for export to Nicaragua?]

  January 1957 to 1957

  N9515C - C-46 SYNDICATE (USA)

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8 January 1957

Transferred.

Converted to Super 46C.

  1957 to 1958

  N9515C - CCA (CALIFORNIA CENTRAL AIRLINES) (USA)

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1957

Leased from C-46 Syndicate.

 

Right: N9515C in the bright CCA livery, unknown date & location.
Photo credit: Jacques Guillem / AirlinersGallery

  1958 to November 1958

  N9515C - GOLDEN STATE AIRLINES (USA)

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1958

Leased from C-46 Syndicate.

  November 1958 to December 1958

  N9515C - PRIVATE (USA)

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5 November 1958

Purchased by Jorge Carnicero of Washington, DC.

22 December 1958

Registration cancelled, exported to Argentina.

  December 1958 to January 1959

  LV-PLU - TSA (TRANSCONTINENTAL SA) (ARGENTINA)

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December 1958

Assigned a temporary import registration (pasavante).

Leased to Transcontinental.

  January 1959 to unknown date

  LV-FTW - TSA (TRANSCONTINENTAL SA) (ARGENTINA)

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13 January 1959

Reregistered.

11 January 1961

Last recorded inspection.

1962

Withdrawn from use.