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Commando 43-47172

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47172

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 243

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK220

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  February 1945 to January 1946

  43-47172 - USAAF (USA)


3 February 1945

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

14 February 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Probably assigned to ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

20 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.