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Commando 44-77370

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77370

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32766

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1302

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to November 1946

  44-77370 - USAAF (USA)


4 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.

18 December 1944

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

18 December 1946

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

24 November 1946

Reclamation completed, probable at Nichols Field, Philippines. [dates discrepancy]

Last edited: 24/09/2020