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Commando 44-77490

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77490

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32886

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1422

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  November 1944 to January 1949

  44-77490 - USAAF (USA)


30 November 1944

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

Probably assigned to the 5th Air Force, 54th Troop Carrier Wing operating in the Southwest Pacific theater.

20 January 1945

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Japan.

11 May 1947

Condemned for salvage, obsolete, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

5 January 1949

Reclamation completed in Japan. [date noted as 5 January 1947, discrepancy]

Last edited: 06/01/2024