Commando 43-47144
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
January 1945 to April 1946
43-47144 - USAAF (USA)
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 1955 to unknown date
N????? - AVIATION EQUIPMENT EXPORT (USA)
1955
Purchased, refurbished and ferried from India to the USA.
Unknown date to February 1956
PP-LDW (I) - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)
Unknown date
Purchased, but apparently not taken up.
February 1956 to 1956
PP-LDW (I) - COMPANHIA ITAU DE TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)
28 February 1956
Purchased.
1956
PP-LDW (I) - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONAL) (BRAZIL)
1956
Transferred as TAN took over Itau.
1956 to August 1961
PP-ITJ - REAL TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)
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)
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.
Last edited: 07/04/2021