Commando 44-77615

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77615

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33011

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1547

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944 to January 1946

  44-77615 - USAAF (USA)

23 December 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 I Troop Carrier Command, 807^th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX.

28 January 1945

Received major damage at Austin Municipal, TX in a landing accident due to a mechanical failure.

Pilot: Sidney L. Windham

  January 1946 to August 1948

  44-77615 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

3 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-46272 -  ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

9 August 1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Fate unknown.