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.
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Withdrawn from use and stored in San Juan, PR.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.