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Commando 43-47000

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47000

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 71

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK48

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944 to July 1946

  43-47000 - USAAF (USA)


27 September 1944

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

20 November 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

26 March 1945

Received major damage at Tunis El Aouina, French Tunisia in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Robert T. McDonald

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 20/12/2020