Commando 43-47098
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47098
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 169
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK146
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
December 1944
43-47098 - USAAF (USA)
23 December 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
December 1944 to September 1946
50715 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)
23 December 1944
Transferred as R5C-1 and delivered to NAS San Diego, CA.
24 December 1944
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), Marine Fleet Air, West Coast.
29 December 1944
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35.
29 June 1945
Assigned to VMR-352 based at MCAS Ewa, HI.
April 1946
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-15 Service Squadron (Servron-15) based at MCAS Ewa, HI.
26 June 1946
Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-24.
23 September 1946
Damaged beyond repair near Majuro, Marshall Islands after a takeoff accident (4/4 fatalities).
The Commando crashed in the water 2.5 km southwest of Majuro shortly after takeoff.
30 September 1946
Struck off charge as Class 4-5-J.