Commando 43-46977

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46977

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 48

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK25

FATE: Unknown

  August 1944 to September 1947

  43-46977 - USAAF (USA)

August 1944

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

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command.

Unknown date

Assigned to 807^th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX.

26 November 1944

Damaged at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Milton W. Stuart

23 December 1944

Damaged at Temple AAF, TX in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Elrino J. Neher Jr (survived, but later died on 22 November 1949 in the crash of C-54D 42-72474 on Mount St Helens, WA)

  September 1947 to January 1965

  43-46977 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2466^th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Atterbury AFB, IN.

12 July 1950

Received major damage at Atterbury AFB, IN in a landing accident.

Pilot: George R. Russell

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2346^th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Paine Field, WA.

3 April 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

19 March 1964

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  January 1965 to unknown date

  N????? - UNKNOWN (USA)

26 January 1965

Purchased less engines from USAF. Total airframe time 4,604 hours. [date erroneously quoted as 25 January 1965 by AB]

Fate unknown.