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Commando 43-47134

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47134

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 205

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK182

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1945 to September 1945

  43-47134 - USAAF (USA)


16 January 1945

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

15 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

9 September 1945

Damaged beyond repair 32 km east of Kunming, Yunnan, China (fatalities).

Pilot: 1st Lt. Martin B. Hurd (killed)

10 September 1945

Condemned for salvage, washout.