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Commando 44-77382

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77382

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32778

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1314

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  November 1944 to September 1947

  44-77382 - USAAF (USA)


11 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.

20 January 1945

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

15 October 1946

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

22 September 1947

Reclamation completed.