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Commando 44-77439

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77439

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32835

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1371

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  November 1944 to September 1947

  44-77439 - USAAF (USA)

November 1944

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

  September 1947 to June 1956

  44-77439 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 315th Troop Carrier Group, Medium based at Brady AB, Japan.

26 September 1954

Damaged while parked at Ashiya AB, Japan by the winds of Typhoon Marie.

  June 1956 to unknown date

  61-1129 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

14 June 1956

Purchased.

Used as a VIP transport.

20 April 1973

Withdrawn from use.

Fate unknown.

 

Right: 61-1129 giving out discovery flights to the public at Tokyo Haneda, Japan on 3 November 1961.
Photo credit: ET / Gonavy.jp

Below: 61-1129 taxies for runway 16 at an unknown airfield, 25 May 1968.
Photo credit: Itazuke-1 / Gonavy.jp

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Last edited: 03/11/2020