Commando 43-46962

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46962

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK10

FATE: Written off

  June 1944 to October 1945

  43-46962 - USAAF (USA)

17 June 1944

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

Assigned to the 3^rd Operational Training Unit (3 OTU) based at Reno AAF, NV.

Remained within the continental USA.

  October 1945 to 1946

  43-46962 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

27 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

  1946 to 1951

  C-67 - LATCO (LINEAS AEREAS TRANSATLANTICAS COLOMBIANAS) (COLOMBIA)

1946

Purchased from RFC.

10 December 1950

Damaged at Bogota El Dorado, Colombia in a landing accident (no fatalities). [quoted in Medellin, Colombia by AB]

  1951 to unknown date

  HK-67 - LATCO (LINEAS AEREAS TRANSATLANTICAS COLOMBIANAS) (COLOMBIA)

1951

Reregistered.

[quoted by AB as becoming temporarily HP-179, but no evidence seems to support that]

  Unknown date to February 1953

  HK-606 - LATCO (LINEAS AEREAS TRANSATLANTICAS COLOMBIANAS) (COLOMBIA)

Unknown date

Reregistered.

15 February 1953

Damaged beyond repair in Medellin, Colombia in a landing accident (0/6 fatalities).

The Commando was operating a cargo flight between Barranquilla and Medellin, Colombia with five crewmembers and one passenger onboard. During landing, the airplane went out of control and veered off the runway. All occupants managed to escape but the aircraft was damaged beyon repair.

1958

Wreckage broken up in Medellin, Colombia.