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Commando 43-47097

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47097

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 168

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK145

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47097 - USAAF (USA)


23 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to unknown date

  50714 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


23 December 1944

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

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

26 December 1945

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

April 1946

Assigned to VMR-953 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

May 1946

Assigned to VMR-952.

December 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

15 May 1947

Overhauled at NAS San Diego, CA.

June 1947

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

Fate unknown.

Last edited: 27/03/2021