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Commando 43-47221

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47221

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 292

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK269

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  February 1945 to April 1946

  43-47221 - USAAF (USA)


28 February 194543 47221 1

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

12 March 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, 1333rd AAF Base Unit, Chabua, Assam, India.

11 July 1945

Damaged in a ground accident in Chabua, Assam, India.

Pilot: 1st Lt Hollis Leon Adkison Sr. (survived, pictured)

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  43-47221 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)


15 April 1946

Purchased.

1947

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 22/10/2022