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Commando 43-47082

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47082

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 153

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK130

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47082 - USAAF (USA)


18 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to 1954

  50709 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


18 December 1944

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

December 1944

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

27 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.

February 1947

Stored at NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.

  1954 to 1958

  N2833C - PRIVATE (USA)


1954

Purchased by an unknown private owner.

  1958 to unknown date

  N4095A (II) - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)


1958

Purchased.

6 August 1963

Registration cancelled.

Last edited: 24/03/2021