Commando 43-47225

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47225

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 296

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK273

FATE: Preserved

  March 1945 to April 1946

  43-47225 - USAAF (USA)

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5 March 1945

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

11 March 1945

Departed the USA for Casablanca, French Morocco.

Assigned to ATC North African Division, 1252^nd AAF Base Unit, Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco.

15 April 1945

Damaged at Mellaha AB, Libya in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Orvin O. Holte (survived, pictured)

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to December 1959

  43-47225 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

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15 April 1946

Purchased.

ca 1949

Evacuated to Taiwan.

  December 1959 to unknown date

  91-1144 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

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23 December 1959

Purchased and delivered to Japan.

Converted to C-46D.

21 January 1963

Withdrawn from use.

Used as a ground instructional airframe at Hamamatsu AB, Japan.

  Unknown date to present

  91-1144 - HIJIRI MUSEUM (JAPAN)

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Unknown date

Tailfin and nose section transferred and displayed outdoors in Omi, Japan.

 

Below, left: 91-1144's tailfin left outdoor at the Hijiri Museum, 15 August 1995.
Photo credit: flyteam.jp

Below, right: 91-1144's nose section, displayed outside as well, seen on 30 April 2012.
Photo credit: airportworld.sakura.ne.jp