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