Commando 44-77553

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77553

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32949

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1485

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944 to December 1945

  44-77553 - USAAF (USA)

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9 December 1944

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

Assigned to Air Transport Command based at Baer Field, IN.

Unknown date

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, 813^th AAF Base Unit, Squadron B, Sedalia AAF, MO.

Used for combat crew training.

14 June 1945

Damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Charles M. Schwartz.

23 June 1945

Received major damage at Sedalia AAF, MO in a landing accident.

Pilot: Darrell R. Cammack

  December 1945 to August 1948

  44-77553 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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24 December 1945

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

  August 1948 to unknown date

  C-46281 -  ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

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17 August 1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Possibly used in the air bridge between mainland China and Taiwan in 1948-1949.

Fate unknown.