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Commando 43-47148

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47148

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 219

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK196

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1945 to September 1945

  43-47148 - USAAF (USA)


23 January 1945

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

2 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

5 April 1945

Damaged beyond repair 11 km southwest of Mengyu, China. [location not identified]

Pilot: James Powell

Condemned for salvage, missing.