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Commando 43-47100

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47100

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 171

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK148

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47100 - USAAF (USA)

30 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to July 1947

  50717 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)

30 December 1944

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

January 1945

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

March 1945

Assigned to VMR-253 based on Guam, Marianna Islands.

27 April 1946

Assigned to MAG-25 based in Tsingtao, Shandong, China.

June 1946

Assigned to VMR-153 based in Tsingtao, Shandong, China.

4 July 1947

Damaged beyond repair in Tsingtao, Shandong, China in a landing accident.

31 October 1947

Struck off charge.