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Commando 43-47101

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47101

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 172

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK149

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47101 - USAAF (USA)

30 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to unknown date

  50718 - 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.

29 June 1945

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

April 1946

Assigned to NAS Alameda, CA.

31 October 1946

Struck off charge as surplus.

Last edited: 27/03/2021