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Commando 43-47261

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47261

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 332

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK309

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1945 to May 1945

  43-47261 - USAAF (USA)


28 March 1945

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

5 April 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Unknown date

Assigned to Air Transport Command India-China Division.

21 May 1945

Destroyed after the crew bailed out 24 km north of Luliang, Yunnan, China.

Pilot: Robert N. Edgett