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Commando 44-77606

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77606

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33002

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1538

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944 to January 1946

  44-77606 - USAAF (USA)


9 December 1944

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

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

  January 1946 to August 1948

  44-77606 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


5 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-46274 -  ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)


10 August 1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Fate unknown.

Last edited: 01/05/2024