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Commando 43-46980

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46980

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 51

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK28

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  August 1944 to October 1945

  43-46980 - USAAF (USA)


29 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.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  43-46980 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


31 October 1945

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

  May 1948 to 1950

  N79027 - PRIVATE (USA)


10 May 1948

Purchased from RFC by W. L. Stevens of New Orleans, LA.

25 October 1954

Registration cancelled.

  1950 to 1951

  CB-52 - CBF (CORPORACION BOLIVIANA DE FOMENTO) (BOLIVIA)


1950

Purchased. [quoted by AB as purchased by Suarez Hermanos, possibly CBF administrators]

  1951 to March 1959

  CP-552 - CBF (CORPORACION BOLIVIANA DE FOMENTO) (BOLIVIA)


1951

Reregistered.

12 March 1959

Damaged beyond repair in Charagua, Bolivia (no fatalities).