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Commando 43-47318

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47318

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 389

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK366

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  April 1945 to July 1946

  43-47318 - USAAF (USA)


27 April 1945

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Saint Louis, MO.

8 May 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

16 May 1945

Received minor damage at Dakar Mallard Field, Senegal, French West Africa in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Frederick W. Polack

While taxiing on the ramp at Mallard Field, the Commando hit parked C-47A 42-93075 of the 61st Troop Carrier Group. The C-47A received major damage.

Unknown date

Assigned to Tacloban Field, Leyte, Philippines.

31 July 1946

Condemned, to reclamation.