Commando 43-47077

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47077

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 148

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK125

FATE: Written off

  December 1944

  43-47077 - USAAF (USA)

17 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to February 1946

  50704 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

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-353 based on Saipan, Marianna Islands.

November 1945

Assigned to MAG-21 Service Squadron (Servron-21) based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

11 December 1945

Damaged beyond repair at NAS Agana Field, Guam, Marianna Islands in a landing accident.

The Commando hit Jeeps and parked aircraft during landing at NAS Agana Field.

January 1946

Assigned to VMR-353 based on Saipan, Marianna Islands. [already a wreck]

28 February 1946

Struck off charge, Class 4-5-J.