Commando 43-47211
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47211
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 282
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK259
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
February 1945 to April 1945
43-47211 - USAAF (USA)
24 February 1945
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
3 March 1945
Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.
Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile) based in Luliang, Yunnan, China.
7 April 1945
Went missing over China (4/4 missing).
Crew:
F/O R.W. Fiske, Pilot
2nd Lt. R.K. Hill, Copilot
T/Sgt F. Bufkin, Radio Operator
T/Sgt B.W. Wright, Flight Engineer
The Commando went missing on a flight from Hanchung, Shaanxi, China [today Hanzhong Xiguan Airport] to Chungking, Sichuan, China [sometimes quoted more generally as Liangshan].
9 April 1945
Condemned for salvage, missing.
Wreckage never found.