Commando 43-47396

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47396

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 466

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK444

FATE: Written off

  July 1945

  43-47396 - USAAF (USA)

3 July 1945

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

  July 1945 to July 1951

  50723 - 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.

December 1945

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

November 1947

Assigned to NAS Pearl Harbor, HI.

May 1948

Assigned to NAS San Diego, CA.

30 July 1951

Damaged beyond repair at Smith Reynolds Airport, Winston-Salem, NC in a ground loop during takeoff.