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Commando 43-47078

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47078

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 149

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK126

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47078 - USAAF (USA)


17 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to unknown date

  50705 - 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.

29 June 1945

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

April 1946

Assigned to Pearl Harbor, HI.

June 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

30 September 1946

Struck off charge as surplus.

Last edited: 19/03/2021