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Commando 44-77362

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77362

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32758

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1294

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to September 1947

  44-77362 - USAAF (USA)

November 1944

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

  September 1947 to August 1955

  44-77362 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

USAF history unknown.

  August 1955 to September 1972

  51-1119 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

18 August 1955

Leased from the US Department of Defense.

27 September 1972

Withdrawn from use and returned to the US Department of Defense.
 

 

Below, left: 51-1119 seen at the Irima Air Festival on 3 November 1965.

Below, right: 51-1119 taxiing for takeoff at an unknown location on 24 March 1968.
Photo credit: www.gonavy.jp

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44 77362 1

  September 1972 to unknown date

  44-77362 - USAF (USA)

27 September 1972

Returned from lease.

15 February 1973

Offered for sale at Miho AB, Koshinotsu, Honshu, Japan.

Total airframe time 9,432 hours.

Fate unknown.

Last edited: 02/11/2020