Commando 43-47126

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47126

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 197

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK174

FATE: Written off

  January 1945 to July 1945

  43-47126 - USAAF (USA)

16 January 1945

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

12 February 1945

Assigned to 20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2^nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) based in Luliang, Yunnan, China.

6 July 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Luliang, Yunnan, China in a takeoff accident (4/4 fatalities).

Crew:
2^nd Lt. Edward Barlow Wimmer, Pilot
FO W. E. Barnes, Copilot
TSgt. W. C. Shaefer, Radio Operator
Corp. J. Milezakowski, Flight Engineer [possibly J. M. Zakowski]

During a night takeoff from Luliang, the Commando seems to have lost power on one engine, and crashed in the nearby mountains. All aboard perished.

Condemned for salvage, washout.