Commando 43-47147
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
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 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Withdrawn from use and stored at Panama City Tocumen International, Panama.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]