Commando 43-47173

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47173

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 244

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK221

FATE: Unknown

  February 1945 to October 1945

  43-47173 - USAAF (USA)

10 February 1945

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

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, based at Baer Field, IN.

Unknown date

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, 813^th AAF Base Unit, Sedalia AAF, MO, Squadron D.

28 June 1945

Damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Sidney E. Daviston

While taxxing on the ramp at Sedalia AAF, MO, the Commando hit parked sistership 43-47188. Both aircraft were damaged.

  October 1945 to unknown date

  43-47173 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

26 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

Fate unknown.