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Commando 43-47152

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47152

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 223

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK200

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1945 to July 1945

  43-47152 - USAAF (USA)


26 January 1945

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

4 February 1945

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

24 July 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Leizhou, Guangdong, China in a belly landing.

Pilot: Bruno A. Selva (survived, retired a USAF Major)

Condemned for salvage, washout.