Commando 43-47231

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

  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, 1252^nd 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]