Commando 43-47178

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47178

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 249

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK226

FATE: Written off

  February 1945 to November 1945

  43-47178 - USAAF (USA)

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9 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.

11 May 1945

Received major damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a ground collision with parked C-47s 42-23306 and 43-48471.

Pilot: Frank T. Roebuck

  November 1945 to 1946

  43-47178 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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15 November 1945

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

  1946 to 1948

  C-65 - LATCO (LINEAS AEREAS TRANSATLANTICAS COLOMBIANAS) (COLOMBIA)

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1946

Purchased from RFC.

  1948 to November 1949

  HK-65 - LATCO (LINEAS AEREAS TRANSATLANTICAS COLOMBIANAS) (COLOMBIA)

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1948

Reregistered.

  November 1949 to March 1966

  YV-C-ARE (II) - RANSA (RUTAS AEREAS NACIONALES SA) (VENEZUELA)

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November 1949

Purchased.

1 December 1949

Registered.

  March 1966 to January 1968

  HP-407 - APASA (AEROVIAS PANAMA SA) (PANAMA)

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March 1966

Leased from RANSA.

17 August 1966

Registration cancelled, possibly following APASA's bankruptcy.

  January 1968 to April 1970

  CP-833 - SANIA (BOLIVIA)

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January 1968

Purchased.

24 May 1969

Received major damaged in an accicdent.

Registration cancelled.

 

  April 1970 to July 1970

  CP-914 - SAB (SERVICIOS AEREOS BOLIVIANOS) (BOLIVIA)

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April 1970

Purchased, rebuilt and reregistered.

15 July 1970

Damaged beyond repair in Espiritu, Bolivia in an accident (no fatalities).