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Commando 43-47022

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47022

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 93

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK70

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  October 1944 to March 1945

  43-47022 - USAAF (USA)

18 October 1944

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

19 November 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

10 December 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

1 February 1945

Damaged beyond repair in a Missamari, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Vernon N. Swinson (survived)

5 March 1945

Condemned for salvage.