Commando 43-47149

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47149

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 220

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK197

FATE: Written off

  January 1945 to March 1945

  43-47149 - USAAF (USA)

23 January 1945

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

4 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

31 March 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Hansel C. Haynes (survived, went on to fly in Korea and retired a USAF Major)

Condemned for salvage, washout.