Commando 43-47091
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47091
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 162
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK139
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
December 1944 to January 1946
43-47091 - USAAF (USA)
14 December 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
Assigned to ATC Ferry Division, 20th Ferry Group. [unidentified unit]
23 December 1944
Damaged at Borinquen Field, PR in a taxi accident.
Pilot: David M. Groh (survived)
The Commando was probably being ferried to the China-Burma-India theatre when the accident occured.
8 January 1945
Assigned to ATC India-China Division.
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
23 January 1946
Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.