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Commando 43-46953

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-1-CS Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46953

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 24

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK1

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1944 to September 1947

  43-46953 - USAAF (USA)

January 1944

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

Converted into the sole XC-46B, with a stepped windshield and water-injected 2,100-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34W engines.

Possibly tested at Wright Field, OH.

Unknown date

Withdrawn from use. [quoted as 1946 or 1948]

 

 

Right & below: a series of photos of what is presumably 43-46953 - not completely sure it is not a C-46E instead... No location or date information.
Photo credit : USAF / alamyimages.fr

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  March 1946 to unknown date

  43-46953 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

10 May 1948

Assigned to Keesler Field, MS.

Fate unknown.

 

Left: presumably 43-46953 in a much more recent color scheme, location unknown.
Photo credit: Ron Dupas / 1000aircraft photos.com

Last edited: 01/12/2020