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Commando 44-77329

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77329

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32725

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1261

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  October 1944 to March 1949

  44-77329 - USAAF (USA)


27 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 January 1945

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.

8 March 1949

Reclamation completed at Clark Field, Philippines.