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Commando 43-47073

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47073

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 144

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK121

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1944 to June 1945

  43-47073 - USAAF (USA)

10 December 1944

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

8 January 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1332nd AAF Base Unit, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

10 June 1945

Destroyed 13 km north of Yunnani, Yunnan, China after the crew bailed out following an engine failure.

Pilot: John D. Evelyn

11 June 1945

Condemned for salvage, crashed.