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Commando 43-47407

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46E-1-CS Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47407

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 2933

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK455

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1945 to March 1946

  43-47407 - USAAF (USA)


13 July 1945

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

Intended as lend-lease to China, but cancelled.

Remained within the continental USA.

  March 1946 to unknown date

  43-47407 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


12 March 1946

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

Fate unknown, most likely broken up.

Last edited: 02/12/2023