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Commando 43-47166

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47166

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 237

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK214

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1945 to June 1945

  43-47166 - USAAF (USA)


31 January 1945

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

14 February 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) based in Luliang, Yunnan, China.

15 June 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Chihkiang, Hunan, China [today Huaihua Zhijiang Airport] in a landing accident.

Pilot: Thomas H. Tyson

The Commando undershot the runway on landing.

18 June 1945

Condemned for salvage, washout.