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Commando 44-77425

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77425

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32821

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1357

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  November 1944 to September 1947

  44-77425 - USAAF (USA)


November 1944

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

  September 1947 to August 1979

  44-77425 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to 2578th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Ellington AFB, TX.

18 April 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

5 February 1964

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

August 1978

Advertised for sale by the US Department of Defense.

7 August 1979

Sold for scrap to Southwestern Alloys of Tucson, AZ.

 

Right: obsolete 44-77425 stripped of all vital parts, still surviving at Davis-Monthan boneyard on 14 October 1978.
Photo credit: Kerry Taylor / Flickr

Last edited: 20/01/2024