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Commando 43-47095

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47095

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 166

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK143

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47095 - USAAF (USA)


23 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to January 1948

  50712 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


23 December 1944

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

December 1944

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

June 1945

Assigned to VMR-952 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

May 1947

Assigned to VMR-252 based at MCAS El Toro, CA.

June 1947

Assigned to NAS Norfolk,VA.

31 January 1948

Struck off charge as Class 7-8-Z.

Last edited: 26/03/2021