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Commando 43-47165

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47165

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 236

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK213

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1945 to April 1945

  43-47165 - USAAF (USA)


31 January 1945

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

16 February 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1332nd AAF Base Unit, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

3 April 1945

Destroyed 24 km southeast of Chabua, Assam, India after the crew bailed out following an engine failure (0/2 fatalities).

Pilot: Joe F. Walters

Condemned for salvage, washout.