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Commando 43-47034

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47034

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 105

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK82

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to August 1946

  43-47034 - USAAF (USA)


1 November 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.

20 March 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Probably assigned to the ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

1 August 1946

Excluded from the inventory.

Last edited: 24/10/2022