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Commando 43-47102

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47102

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 173

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK150

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  December 1944

  43-47102 - USAAF (USA)

30 December 1944

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

  December 1944 to July 1947

  50719 - 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 Air Fleet Marine Force Pacific.

16 August 1946

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

27 August 1946

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-24.

May 1947

Assigned to MAG-11 Fleet Air Service Squadron (Fasron-11).

31 July 1947

Struck off charge as surplus.

  July 1947 to May 1948

  50719 - WAR ASSETS ADMINISTRATION (USA)

31 July 1947

Transferred from the US Marine Corps.

  May 1948 to January 1949

  43-47102 - USAF (USA)

21 May 1948

Returned to USAF service under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

7 December 1948

Sent for reclamation at Hickam AFB, HI.

7 January 1949

Reclamation completed at Hickam AFB, HI.

Last edited: 27/03/2021