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Commando 44-77437

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77437

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32833

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1369

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to March 1946

  44-77437 - USAAF (USA)


15 November 1944

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

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command based at Baer Field, IN.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 807th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX with I Troop Carrier Command.

8 December 1944

Received major damage while parked at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a ground collision with Commando 42-101109.

  March 1946 to unknown date

  44-77437 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


1 March 1946

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

Fate unknown.