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Commando 43-47024

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47024

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 95

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK72

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944 to April 1946

  43-47024 - USAAF (USA)


31 October 1944

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

Assigned to the Twentieth Air Force, XXI Bomber Command, 313th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy, 509th Composite Group, 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy based at Wendover AAF, UT.

9 March 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Probably assigned to the ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  43-47024 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)


15 April 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 24/02/2021