Commando 43-47099

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47099

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 170

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK147

FATE: Written off

  December 1944

  43-47099 - USAAF (USA)

26 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to ca 1956

  50716 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

26 December 1944

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

January 1945

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

26 June 1945

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

April 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

November 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

7 April 1947

Overhauled at NAS San Diego, CA.

May 1947

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

  ca 1956 to 1961

  N7765B - AAXICO (USA)

ca 1956

Purchased.

22 December 1960

Registered.

11 April 1961

Registration cancelled, exported to Uruguay.

  1961 to January 1962

  CX-AYI - PRIVATE (URUGUAY)

1961

Purchased by Juan Adorisio Sanchez. [also spelled Naschez]

28 January 1962

Damaged beyond repair near La Toma, San Luis, Argentina in a forced landing (0/4 fatalities).

The Commando was operating a cargo flight with three crewmembers and one passenger onboard. This was apparently a smuggling flight into Argentina. The crew had to perform a forced landing near La Toma in San Luis, Argentina. The aircraft was destroyed while all four occupants escaped uninjured.

April 1963

Part of the fuselage, cargo door and cargo floor used to convert Commando 42-61061 registered LV-FTR into a freighter at Buenos Aires Ezeiza, Argentina.