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Commando 44-77315

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77315

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32711

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1247

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  October 1944 to January 1947

  44-77315 - USAAF (USA)


30 October 1944

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

Probably assigned to the 5th Air Force, 54th Troop Carrier Wing operating in the Southwest Pacific theater.

14 December 1944

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

21 April 1947

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

4 January 1947

Reclamation completed at Clark Field, Philippines. [dates discrepancy]