Commando 43-46975

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-5-CK Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46975

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 46

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK23

FATE: Unknown

  August 1944 to June 1946

  43-46975 - USAAF (USA)

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23 August 1944

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

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command based at Baer Field, IN.

Remained within the continental USA.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 237^th AAF Base Unit, Kirtland Field, NM.

Probably served the 16^th Bombardment Operational Training Wing, Very Heavy in a support role.

8 November 1945

Received major damage at Kirtland Field, NM in a forced landing following an engine failure.

Pilot: Irwin O. "Jack" Steiner (survived, went on to fly in the Korean War and retired a USAF Lt. Col., pictured right)

  June 1946 to unknown date

  43-46975 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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24 June 1946

Transferred to RFC and stored at Albuquerque, NM.

Fate unknown.

[it is possible that this Commando never flew again after its November 1945 accident at Albuquerque, NM and that only its wreckage was transferred to RFC]