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Commando 43-47052

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47052

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 123

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK100

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  November 1944 to January 1946

  43-47052 - USAAF (USA)


21 November 1944

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

5 December 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1333rd AAF Base Unit, Chabua, Assam, India.

31 May 1945

Damaged in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Gaylord W. Hargadine (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

20 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 01/03/2021