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Commando 43-46957

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46957

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 28

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK5

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to November 1945

  43-46957 - USAAF (USA)


29 May 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

31 May 1944

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Division.

7 November 1945

Returned to the continental USA at Morrison Field, FL.

  November 1945 to May 1948

  43-46957 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


7 November 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.

  May 1948 to December 1948

  43-46957 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

Returned to USAF service.

1 July 1948

Assigned to the Warner Robins Air Materiel Area based at Robins AFB, GA under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A

12 July 1948

Reclamation authorized at Robins AFB, GA.

16 December 1948

Reclamation completed at Robins AFB, GA.