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Commando 44-77346

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77346

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32742

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1278

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  November 1944 to August 1949

  44-77346 - USAAF (USA)


1 November 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.

17 August 1949

Reclamation completed at Clark Field, Philippines.