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Commando 43-47120

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47120

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 191

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK168

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1945 to March 1945

  43-47120 - USAAF (USA)


12 January 1945

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

1 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1333rd AAF Base Unit, Chabua, Assam, India.

4 March 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a belly landing.

Pilot: Herman Furman

6 March 1945

Condemned for salvage, crash.