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Commando 43-47037

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47037

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 108

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK85

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  November 1944 to January 1946

  43-47037 - USAAF (USA)


6 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.

18 February 1945

Assigned to the ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

18 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 26/02/2021