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Commando 43-46986

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46986

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 57

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK34

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to February 1946

  43-46986 - USAAF (USA)


3 September 1944

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

3 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

28 November 1944

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a taxi accident while being maneuvered by ground crew.

2 February 1945

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: 1st Lt. Thomas P. Kerr

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 13/12/2020