Commando 43-47083

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47083

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 154

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK131

FATE: Written off

  December 1944

  43-47083 - USAAF (USA)

19 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to August 1948

  50710 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

19 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.

4 November 1946

Reconditioned at NAS San Diego, CA.

November 1946

Assigned to VMR-952 based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

May 1947

Assigned to VMR-252 based at MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

4 August 1948

Damaged beyond repair at MCAS Cherry Point, NC in a forced landing after a midair fire (no fatalities).

31 August 1948

Struck off charge as Class 4-5-J.