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Commando 43-47399

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47399

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 469

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK447

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1945

  43-47399 - USAAF (USA)


6 July 1945

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

  July 1945 to unknown date

  50726 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


6 July 1945

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

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

9 July 1945

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

10 July 1945

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

December 1945

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

26 August 1946

Assigned to Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

September 1946

Assigned to Air Pac based at MCAS Ewa, HI.

November 1946

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

27 April 1946

Overhauled.

April 1947

Assigned to MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

May 1947

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

Fate unknown.