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Commando 43-47107

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47107

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 178

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK155

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  December 1944 to January 1946

  43-47107 - USAAF (USA)


27 December 1944

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

1 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1339th AAF Base Unit, Chengkung, Yunnan, China.

25 June 1945

Damaged in Chengkung, Yunnan, China in a ground accident.

Pilot: Robert J. Renn (survived)

The Commando collided on the ground with parked sistership 43-47305.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

21 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 27/10/2022