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Commando 43-47004

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47004

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 75

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK52

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944 to July 1946

  43-47004 - USAAF (USA)


4 October 1944

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

29 October 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

1 September 1945

Received major damage at Cazes AB, Casablanca, French Morocco in a ground accident while being handled by ground crew (no fatalities).

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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