Commando 43-47328

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

   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Withdrawn from use and stored at Iruma AB, Japan.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