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).