Commando 44-77514

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77514

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32910

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1446

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944 to September 1947

  44-77514 - USAAF (USA)

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December 1944

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

  September 1947 to January 1955

  44-77514 - USAF (USA)

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18 September 1947

Transferred.

  January 1955 to September 1972

  51-1103 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

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16 January 1955

Leased from the US Department of Defense as part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP).

 

Right: 51-1103 shot during the Gifu AB, Japan open day on 3 May 1958.
Photo credit: Junpei Yasuda / hikokikumo.net

  September 1972 to unknown date

  44-77514 - USAF (USA)

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27 September 1972

Returned from lease and stored in Japan.

15 February 1973

Offered for sale at Iruma AB, Japan. Total airframe time: 9,872 hours.

No buyer known, fate unknown.