Commando 43-47096

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47096

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 167

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK144

FATE: Written off

  December 1944

  43-47096 - USAAF (USA)

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19 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to 1947

  50713 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

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19 December 1944

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

21 December 1944

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

22 December 1944

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

29 June 1945

Assigned to VMR-352 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

March 1946

Assigned to Pearl Harbor, HI.

April 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

30 September 1946

Struck off charge as surplus.

  1947

  N10437 - AIR CORPORATION OF MIAMI (USA)

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1947

Purchased.

  1947 to 1954

  CC-CAG-0470 - LYON AIR (CHILE)

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1947

Purchased.

  1954 to July 1958

  CC-CAG-0470 - ALA (SOCIEDAD DE TRANSPORTES AEREOS) (CHILE)

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1954

Transferred as Lyon Air merged with Air Chile and changed its name to ALA.

15 June 1957

Damaged in Tulara, Chile in a belly landing.

Repaired.

  July 1958 to September 1968

  HC-AMC - ANDES (AEROLINEAS NACIONALES DEL ECUADOR SA) (ECUADOR)

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25 July 1958

Purchased.

20 September 1968

Damaged beyond repair in Managua, Nicaragua in a takeoff accident (1/2 fatalities).

The Commando was operating a cargo flight between Managua, Nicaragua and Miami, FL with only two crewmembers onboard. The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff, killing one pilot and wounding the other.