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Commando 43-47398

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47398

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 468

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK446

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1945

  43-47398 - USAAF (USA)


3 July 1945

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

  July 1945 to 1956

  50725 - US MARINE CORPS (USA)


3 July 1945

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

5 July 1945

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.

April 1946

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

August 1946

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

September 1947

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

October 1947

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

January 1948

Assigned to NAS Columbus, OH.

Unknown date

Struck off charge.

  1956 to 1957

  N7767B - AAXICO (USA)


1956

Purchased by Howard J. Korth, President of AAXICO.

  1957 to July 1960

  HI-39 - DOMINICANA DE AVIACION (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)


1957

Purchased.

1969

Withdrawn from use and stored in San Juan, PR.

1990's

Presumed broken up.