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Commando 43-47355

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47355

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 426

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK403

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  June 1945 to September 1947

  43-47355 - USAAF (USA)


2 June 1945

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

14 June 1945

Departed the USA for Oahu, HI.

Late 1945

Assigned to Nichols Field, Luzon, Philippines, probably with the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

31 December 1945

Excluded.

16 April 1946

Reinstated and assigned to the ATC Pacific Division.

  September 1947 to January 1950

  43-47355 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

1 January 1948

Assigned to Hickam Field, HI.

1 July 1948

Assigned the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

  January 1950 to unknown date

  43-47355 - NACA (NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS) (USA)


13 January 1950

Transferred to NACA.

1953

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 19/08/2023