Commando 44-77533

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77533

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32929

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1465

FATE: Broken up

  December 1944 to January 1946

  44-77533 - USAAF (USA)

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7 December 1944

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

3 January 1945

Assigned to the 8^th Air Force.

Unknown date

Assigned to the Air Transport Command, Ferrying Division, 20th Ferrying Group.

22 January 1945

Received major damage at Eccles Depot (Station 548), England in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Norman E. Carver

February 1945

Probably assigned to the 9^th Air Force, 52^th Troop Carrier Wing.

25 July 1945

Returned to the USA at Bradley Field, CT.

  January 1946 to May 1948

  44-77533 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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21 January 1946

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

  May 1948 to unknown date

  44-77533 - USAF (USA)

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21 May 1948

Returned to USAF service.

19 August 1948

Assigned to the Oklahoma City Air Material Area based at Tinker AFB, OK and probably refurbished.

13 April 1949

Reclamation authorized.

16 August 1949

Reclamation completed.