Commando 43-47353
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47353
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 424
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK401
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
May 1945 to November 1945
43-47353 - USAAF (USA)
25 May 1945
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Saint Louis, MO.
Assigned to the 1st Operational Training Unit (1 OTU) based at Rosecrans Field, MO.
Remained within the Continental USA.
November 1945 to 1948
43-47353 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)
6 November 1945
Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.
1948 to 1977
HI-18 - DOMINICANA DE AVIACION (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
1948
Purchased.
1977
Broken up for spares.
Below: a very nice Flight Simulator rendering of HI-18 in 1960.
Photo credit: Juan Ernesto Oropeza / Avsim.net
