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Commando 43-47231

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47231

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 302

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK279

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1945 to December 1945

  43-47231 - USAAF (USA)


13 March 1945

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

18 March 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC North African Division, 1252nd AAFBU, Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco.

20 September 1945

Received major damage in a landing accident at Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco.

Pilot: Allen B. Burdick

31 December 1945

Excluded from the inventory. [the assumption here is that the Commando was never repaired after its September 1945 accident]

Last edited: 20/05/2022