Commando 43-47222

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47222

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 293

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK270

FATE: Preserved

  March 1945 to April 1946

  43-47222 - USAAF (USA)

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3 March 1945

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

10 March 1945

Departed the USA for Casablanca, French Morocco.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to December 1959

  43-47222 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

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15 April 1946

Purchased.

ca 1949

Evacuated to Taiwan.

  December 1959 to present

  91-1143 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

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22 December 1959

Purchased.

6 November 1962

Delivered to Japan.

Converted to C-46D.

1973

Converted to EC-46D and assigned to the Air Defense Command, Electronic Counter Measures Squadron based at Iruma AB, Japan.

Used for electronic warfare training.

11 March 1978

Withdrawn from use.

Displayed outdoors at Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park, Japan.

 

Right: 91-1143 landing at Iruma AB, Japan in the morning of 14 August 1974.
Photo credit: flyteam.jp

Below, left: 91-1143 on the apron of Iruma AB, Japan on 6 December 1974.
Photo credit: Bob Thomas / AirHistory.net

Below, right: the same landing at Atsugi AB, Japan on 15 March 1976.
Photo credit: flyteam.jp

Bottom: two shots of 91-1143 at its final resting place, Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park, Japan.
Photo credit: flyteam.jp & Gerben Groothuis respectively