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Commando 43-47206

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47206

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 277

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK254

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  February 1945 to April 1946

  43-47206 - USAAF (USA)

20 February 1945

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

27 February 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Probably assigned to ATC India-China Division.

   April 1946 to ca 1956

  43-47206 - INDIAN GOVERNMENT (INDIA)

10 April 1946

Purchased.

  ca 1956 to June 1957

  43-47206 - WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMPORT EXPORT COMPANY (USA)

ca 1956

Purchased to be refurbished and exported.

19 June 1957

Destroyed in a hangar collapse during a storm in Panagarh, West Bengal, India along with several other Commandos.