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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.