Commando 44-77423

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77423

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32819

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1355

FATE: Unknown

  November 1944 to January 1946

  44-77423 - USAAF (USA)

15 November 1944

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

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command based at Baer Field, IN.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 807^th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX with I Troop Carrier Command.

4 February 1945

Received major damage at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a landing accident.

Pilot: Dean O. Davis (survived, retired a USAF Major after serving in Korea and Vietnam)

  January 1946 to August 1948

  44-77423 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

28 January 1946

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

ca 1948

Taken out of storage and overhauled by TALOA under a US Government contract to prepare the aircraft for delivery to China.

  August 1948 to unknown date

  C-46295 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

18 August 1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Possibly used in the air bridge between mainland China and Taiwan in 1948-1949.

Fate unknown.