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Commando 43-47394

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47394

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 464

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK442

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  June 1945 to February 1946

  43-47394 - USAAF (USA)


29 June 1945

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

25 July 1945

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

13 September 1945

Damaged at Willingdon Airfield, Delhi, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Manson J. Bushman

6 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.