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Commando 43-47362

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47362

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 433

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK410

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1945 to October 1945

  43-47362 - USAAF (USA)

29 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.

  October 1945 to 1947

  43-47362 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

26 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

  1947

  XH-TNC (I) - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES) (HONDURAS)

1947

Purchased. [possibly NTU]

  1947 to August 1949

  CB-37 - LAB (LLOYD AEREO BOLIVIANO) (BOLIVIA)

1948

Purchased.

29 May 1947

Received major damage in Trinidad, Bolivia in an undocumented accident.

Rebuilt.

10 August 1949

Damaged beyond repair in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia in yet another undocumented accident.