Commando 43-47050

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47050

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 121

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK98

FATE: Written off

  November 1944 to April 1946

  43-47050 - USAAF (USA)

18 November 1944

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

1 December 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

   April 1946 to 1956

  43-47050 - INDIAN GOVERNMENT (INDIA)

10 April 1946

Purchased.

  1956

  N2081A - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

1956

Purchased.

11 March 1956

Ferried from India to Miami, FL via Natal, Brazil for Herrol Bellomy and L. B. Smith.

  1956 to June 1956

  N2081A - AIR CORPORATION OF MIAMI (USA)

1956

Purchased.

  June 1956 to May 1971

  TG-ACA-C - AVIATECA (GUATEMALA)

20 June 1956

Registered.

11 May 1971

Damaged beyond repair 24 km south of Guatemala City, Guatemala after an engine failed (5/32 fatalities).

The Commando was operating a scheduled passenger flight between Guatemala City La Aurora International Airport and Flores, Guatemala with 3 crewmembers and 29 passengers onboard. During the climb, the crew radioed that they had lost an engine and that they were turning back to Guatemala City. The aircraft could not maintain altitude, and it crashed on Mount Alux, killing all crewmembers and two passengers. [Mount Alux is actually 24 km to the west of Guatemala City]