Commando 43-47005

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47005

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 76

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK53

FATE: Broken up

  October 1944 to December 1944

  43-47005 - USAAF (USA)

6 October 1944

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

16 November 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

16 November 1944

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

13 December 1945

Received major damage in Sookerating, Assam, India in a taxi accident. [sometimes erroneously noted as a takeoff accident]

Pilot: Raoul C. Ramos

31 December 1945

Condemned for salvage, collision. [sometimes noted as a separate accident by some, but probably consecutive to the former accident]

Apparently reinstated.

16 April 1945

Received major damage in Myitkyina, Burma in an accident.

Pilot: Paul G. Seib

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

5 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.