Commando 43-47144

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47144

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 215

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK192

FATE: Broken up

  January 1945 to April 1946

  43-47144 - USAAF (USA)

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23 January 1945

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

2 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

   April 1946 to 1955

  43-47144 - INDIAN GOVERNMENT (INDIA)

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10 April 1946

Purchased.

  1955 to unknown date

  N????? - AVIATION EQUIPMENT EXPORT (USA)

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1955

Purchased, refurbished and ferried from India to the USA.

  Unknown date to February 1956

  PP-LDW (I) - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)

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Unknown date

Purchased, but apparently not taken up.

  February 1956 to 1956

  PP-LDW (I) - COMPANHIA ITAU DE TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)

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28 February 1956

Purchased.

  1956

  PP-LDW (I) - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONAL) (BRAZIL)

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1956

Transferred as TAN took over Itau.

  1956 to August 1961

  PP-ITJ - REAL TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)

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1956

Transferred as TAN merged into the Real consortium.

27 March 1958

Reregistered.

 

Right: PP-ITJ at Sao Paulo Congonhas, Brazil in September 1957. Note the Real and Nacional titles.
Photo credit: Reginald Rowe / AirlineFan.com

Below: a flight simulator shot of PP-ITJ. Note the Real and Aerovias titles - a mistake?
Image credit: Manuele Villa / Fly Away Simulation

  August 1961 to June 1969

  PP-ITJ - VARIG (BRAZIL)

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August 1961

Transferred as Real merged into VARIG.

31 January 1963

Certificate of airworthiness expired.

1969

Broken up in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

9 June 1969

Registration cancelled.