Commando 43-47364

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47364

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 435

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK412

FATE: Written off

  May 1945 to October 1945

  43-47364 - USAAF (USA)

31 May 1945

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

Assigned to the 1^st Operational Training Unit (1 OTU) based at Rosecrans Field, MO.

Remained within the Continental USA.

  October 1945 to July 1951

  43-47364 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

26 October 1945

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

  July 1951 to February 1961

  XH-TNB - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES) (HONDURAS)

31 July 1951

Purchased.

  February 1961 to January 1962

  HR-TNB - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES) (HONDURAS)

February 1961

Reregistered.

6 January 1962

Damaged beyond repair in Belize after an engine failure (1/2 fatality).

The Commando was operating a cargo flight between Belize City, Belize and Miami, FL with a load of freight and two pilots onboard. Shortly ofter taking off facing east, the left engine failed. The airplane could not maintain altitude and crashed in the woods on the left bank of the Belize River. One of the two pilots was killed. The plane was found to be 500 lbs overweight.