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Commando 44-77526

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77526

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32922

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1458

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944 to unknown date

  44-77526 - USAAF (USA)


5 December 1944

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

Assigned to the 8th Air Force.

14 February 1945

Departed the USA for Europe via the South Atlantic route.

19 February 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Natal Parnamirim Field, Brazil in an accident (fatalities).

Pilot: Elden H. Voorhies

Condemned by Ferry Command.

Unknown date

Seemingly repaired and reinstated.

Assigned to Air Transport Command, 3rd Ferrying Group based at Romulus AAF, MI.

18 June 1945

Damaged northwest of Washington, DC, in Virginia, in a ground accident due to weather.

Pilot: Harold W. Gilbert

Fate unknown.

Last edited: 26/01/2024