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Commando 44-77433

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77433

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32829

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1365

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to March 1946

  44-77433 - USAAF (USA)


26 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 813th AAF Base Unit, Sedalia AAF, MO, Squadron B with I Troop Carrier Command.

11 May 1945

Damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a ground accident.

Pilot: Dwight N. Hillis (survived, later became a bomber & fighter pilot in Korea & Vietnam and retired a USAF Colonel)

2 July 1945

Damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Robert W. Rose

  March 1946 to unknown date

  44-77433 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


8 March 1946

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

Fate unknown.