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Commando 43-47336

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47336

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 407

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK384

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1945 to June 1945

  43-47336 - USAAF (USA)


7 May 1945

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

12 May 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

19 June 1945

Damaged beyond repair 110 km northeast of Kunming, Yunnan, China in an accident due to undetermined causes.

Pilot: Hugo H. Scherzberg

21 June 1945

Condemned, missing.