Commando 43-47080
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47080
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 151
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK128
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
December 1944
43-47080 - USAAF (USA)
13 December 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
December 1944 to June 1958
50707 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)
13 December 1944
Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.
December 1944
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.
28 March 1945
Assigned to MAG-15 Service Squadron (Servron-15) based at Apamama, Gilbert Islands.
29 March 1945
Assigned to VMR-252.
June 1946
Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.
18 November 1946
Reconditioned at NAS San Diego, CA.
November 1946
Assigned to VMR-252 based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.
June 1958 to October 1958
N5586A - CUTLER CORPORATION (USA)
29 June 1958
Registered to Southern Aircraft Parts Company of Miami, FL to be operated by the Cutler Corporation.
3 October 1958
Registration cancelled, exported to Ecuador.
October 1958 to circa 1968
HC-ACZ - LIA (LINEA INTERNACIONAL AEREA) (ECUADOR)
October 1958
Purchased.
Circa 1968 to 1973
HC-ACZ - ANDES (AEROLINEAS NACIONALES DEL ECUADOR SA) (ECUADOR)
ca 1968
Purchased.
Above: HC-ACZ, unknown date & location.
Photo credit: Les Clark / Photovault.com
Left: HC-ACZ parked in Miami, FL in June 1968.
Photo credit: Bob Garrard / AirHistory.net
1973 to 1980
CC-CCP - LINEA AEREA TAXPA (CHILE)
1973
Purchased.
1979
Withdrawn from use and stored in Santiago, Chile.
Right: a Microsoft Flight Simulator rendering of CC-CCP in TAXPA colors.
Image credit: Flyawaysimulation.com
1980 to unknown dateLast edited: 24/03/2021