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Commando 43-47402

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47402

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 472

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK450

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1945

  43-47402 - USAAF (USA)


6 July 1945

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

  July 1945 to December 1945

  50729 - 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.

31 December 1945

Struck off charge, Class 3-5-F.

Last edited: 29/11/2023