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Commando 43-47038

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47038

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 109

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK86

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to September 1947

  43-47038 - USAAF (USA)


November 1944

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

  September 1947 to January 1965

  43-47038 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2578th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Ellington AFB, TX.

28 February 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

2 February 1959

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  January 1965 to unknown date

  N????? - UNKNOWN (USA)


26 January 1965

Purchased less engines from USAF. Total airframe time 3,913 hours.

Fate unknown.