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Commando 43-47079

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47079

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 150

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK127

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47079 - USAAF (USA)


23 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to unknown date

  50706 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


23 December 1944

Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.

24 December 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), Marine Fleet Air, West Coast.

26 December 1944

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.

26 February 1945

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

March 1945

Assigned to VMR-252.

June 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

30 September 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.