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Commando 43-47202

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47202

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 272 [swapped mistakenly with 273, which received serial number 43-47201]

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK249

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  February 1945 to January 1946

  43-47202 - USAAF (USA)


19 February 1945

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

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Probably assigned to ATC India-China Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

15 January 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 06/11/2021