Commando 43-47147

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47147

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 218

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK195

FATE: Unknown

  January 1945 to April 1946

  43-47147 - USAAF (USA)

23 January 1945

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

31 January 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

   April 1946 to August 1954

  43-47147 - INDIAN GOVERNMENT (INDIA)

10 April 1946

Purchased.

  August 1954 to November 1954

  N9925F - WILSON AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

August 1954

Purchased and refurbished.

13 September 1954

Ferried from India to the USA via Prestwick, UK by Fleetways.

25 March 1955

Registration cancelled.

  November 1954 to January 1958

  XH-TNA - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES) (HONDURAS)

10 November 1954

Purchased.

Right: a Flight Simulator screenshot of XH-TNA.
Image credit: Libardo Guzman, Greg Pepper & Tom Gibson / Fly Away Simulation

  January 1958 to March 1958

  OB-WBA-471 - APSA (AEROLINEAS PERUANAS SA) (PERU)

14 January 1958

Purchased, or possibly leased?

  March 1958 to November 1960

  OB-OAB-471 - APSA (AEROLINEAS PERUANAS SA) (PERU)

12 March 1958

Reregistered.

  November 1960 to February 1968

  HR-TNA - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES) (HONDURAS)

16 November 1960

Returned, probably from lease.

  February 1968 to unknown date

  HP-473 - INAIR PANAMA (PANAMA)

February 1968

Purchased.

1974

Withdrawn from use and stored at Panama City Tocumen International, Panama.

Used for parts.

Fate unknown. [the Commando restored in XH-TNA colors and displayed in Honduras is not this one, but 44-78708]