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Commando 43-47145

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47145

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 216

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK193

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  January 1945 to February 1946

  43-47145 - USAAF (USA)


23 January 1945

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

30 January 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1328th AAF Base Unit, Missamari, Assam, India.

15 March 1945

Damaged in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Edgar Faust

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.