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Commando 43-47400

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47400

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 470

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK449

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1945

  43-47400 - USAAF (USA)


6 July 1945

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Saint Louis, MO.

  July 1945 to unknown date

  50727 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


6 July 1945

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

9 July 1945

Assigned to Homeland Defense Network (HDN), Marine Fleet Air, West Coast based at NAS San Diego, CA.

13 July 1945

Assigned to HDN, MAG-35 based at MCAS El Centro, CA.

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

June 1946

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force based in Guam, Mariana Islands.

September 1946

Assigned to Air Pac based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

17 October 1946

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

February 1947

Assigned to Air Pac based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

August 1947

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

November 1947

Assigned to Fleet Air Service Squadron 11 (Fasron-11) based at NAS Pearl Harbor, HI.

May 1948

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

Fate unknown.