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.