Commando 43-47140
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47140
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 211
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK188
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
January 1945 to April 1945
43-47140 - USAAF (USA)
21 January 1945
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
28 January 1945
Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) based in Luliang, Yunnan, China.
29 March 1945
Damaged beyond repair in Chinkiang, Jiangsu, China in a landing accident. [present-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu]
Pilot: William A. Crawford
The Commando landed to long and fast. The pilot was forced to ground loop the aircraft off the side of the runway to avoid running off a high embankment at the runway end. The pilot was under strain as he had just witnessed the mid-air expolsion of a B-25 landing at night.
28 April 1945
Condemned for salvage.