Commando 43-47328
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando
USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47328
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 399
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK376
FATE: Preserved
Operational Record
May 1945 to April 1946
43-47328 - USAAF (USA)
2 May 1945
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Saint Louis, MO.
9 May 1945
Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.
Unknown date
Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.
April 1946 to January 1960
43-47328 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)
15 April 1946
Purchased.
1949
Evacuated to Taiwan.
January 1960 to present
91-1145 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)
January 1960
Purchased.
December 1959
Delivered.
Converted to EC-46D.
Assigned to the Air Defense Command Electronic Counter Measures Squadron based at Iruma AB, Japan. Used for navaid calibration duties.
11 March 1973
Withdrawn from use and stored at Iruma AB, Japan.
1984
Displayed outside at Iruma AB, Japan.
Below, left: 91-1145 taking off from Iruma AB, Japan on 2 October 1977.
Photo credit: geta-o.jp
Below, right: 91-1145 parked on a remote ramp at Iruma AB during the October 1977 base airshow.
Photo credit: AirHistory.net / Masahiro Yamazaki
Bottom: the same now preserved at Iruma AB, seen on 3 November 2014 & 17 February 2017.
Photo credit: flyteam.jp
Last edited: 21/01/2024