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Commando 43-47116

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47116

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 187

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK164

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  December 1944 to February 1946

  43-47116 - USAAF (USA)


27 December 1944

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

20 January 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

25 May 1945

Received major damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China while parked (no fatalities).

The Commando was parked on Kunming's ramp when it was hit by taxiing C-47 43-49139.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 31/03/2021