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Commando 43-47072

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47072

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 143

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK120

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1944 to May 1945

  43-47072 - USAAF (USA)


2 December 1944

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

6 January 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

11 May 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Chabua, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Kenneth Durham

12 May 1945

Condemned for salvage.

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