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Commando 43-47235

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47235

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 306

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK283

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1945 to June 1945

  43-47235 - USAAF (USA)


10 March 1945

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

15 March 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Unknown date

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

24 June 1945

Went missing 145km north of Myitkyina, Burma. [MACR 14682]

Pilot: Clayton R. Smith

Condemned for salvage, missing.