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Commando 43-46989

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-46989

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 60

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK37

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944 to April 1946

  43-46989 - USAAF (USA)

10 September 1944

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

22 October 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

22 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division. [same date indeed]

17 February 1945

Received major damage at RAF Barrackpore, Bengal, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Herman Peters

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  43-46989 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

15 April 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 24/02/2021