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Commando 44-77310

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77310

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32706

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1242

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944 to April 1946

  44-77310 - USAAF (USA)


23 October 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

4 December 1944

Ferried through Karachi, Sindh, India.

1945

Assigned to the 3rd Combat Cargo Group, 11th Combat Cargo Squadron operating in the China-Burma-India theatre.

24 October 1945

Received major damage in Kiangwan, Shanghai, China in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: J. M. Plyler [probably James M. Plyler Jr., survived]

29 September 1945

Assigned unit redesignated 513th Troop Carrier Group, 332nd Troop Carrier Squadron operating in China.

Early 1946

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  44-77310 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)


15 April 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 18/09/2020