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Commando 43-47123

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47123

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 194

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK171

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  January 1945 to January 1946

  43-47123 - USAAF (USA)


14 January 1945

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

11 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1332nd AAF Base Unit, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

28 September 1945

Received major damage in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Edward Broughton Hayes (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

17 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.