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Commando 44-77471

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77471

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32867

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1403

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to September 1947

  44-77471 - USAAF (USA)


November 1944

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

  September 1947 to May 1961

  44-77471 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to 2578th 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.

4 May 1961

Departed Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for Peru.

  May 1961 to July 1965

  61-326 - FUERZA AEREA DEL PERU (PERU)


May 1961

Supplied under the Military Assistance Program. [registration also noted as FAP-326]

  July 1965 to unknown date

  OB-R-804 - TRANS-PERUANA (PERU)


21 July 1965

Purchased.

11 July 1966

Registered.

September 1970

Withdrawn from use and stored in Lima, Peru.

Fate unknown.

Last edited: 09/03/2024