Commando 44-77427

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77427

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32823

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1359

FATE: Unknown

  November 1944 to September 1947

  44-77427 - USAAF (USA)

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November 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command based at the 807^th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX, Squadron B.

21 January 1945

Damaged at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Howard G. Spencer

27 June 1945

Damaged in Wichita, KS in a taxi accident.

Pilot: J. D. Soden

  September 1947 to May 1961

  44-77427 - USAF (USA)

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18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to 2585^th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Donaldson AFB, SC.

12 April 1958

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

4 May 1961

Departed Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for Peru.

  May 1961 to July 1965

  61-329 - FUERZA AEREA DEL PERU (PERU)

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May 1961

Supplied under the Military Assistance Program. [registration also noted as FAP-329]

  July 1965 to unknown date

  OB-R-806 - TRANS-PERUANA (PERU)

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21 July 1965

Purchased.

1971

Withdrawn from use in Lima, Peru.

Fate unknown.