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Commando 43-47204

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47204

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 275

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK252

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  February 1945 to August 1946

  43-47204 - USAAF (USA)


19 February 1945

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

25 February 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Assigned to the 1st Combat Cargo Group, 1st Combat Cargo Squadron based at Hsinching, Yunnan, China.

16 August 1945

Based at Chengkung, Yunnan, China with the 1st Combat Cargo Squadron.

19 September 1945

Unit redesignated 512th Troop Carrier Group, 326th Troop Carrier Squadron.

18 October 1945

Damaged in a taxi accident at Kwanghan AB, Shanghai, China.

Pilot: Theodore S. Callaghan

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

1 August 1946

Excluded from the inventory.

Last edited: 06/11/2021