Commando 44-77425

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77425

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32821

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1357

FATE: Broken up

  November 1944 to September 1947

  44-77425 - USAAF (USA)

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November 1944

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

  September 1947 to August 1979

  44-77425 - USAF (USA)

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18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to 2578^th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Ellington AFB, TX.

18 April 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

5 February 1964

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

August 1978

Advertised for sale by the US Department of Defense.

7 August 1979

Sold for scrap to Southwestern Alloys of Tucson, AZ.

 

Right: obsolete 44-77425 stripped of all vital parts, still surviving at Davis-Monthan boneyard on 14 October 1978.
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