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Commando 43-47094

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47094

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 165

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK142

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1944 to June 1945

  43-47094 - USAAF (USA)


16 December 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) based in Luliang, Yunnan, China.

16 June 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Laohwangping, Guizhou, China in a landing accident (no fatalities).

Pilot: Mitchell Ferguson

The Commando overshot the runway during a night landing.

18 June 1945

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 01/04/2021