Commando 44-77553

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77553

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32949

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1485

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944 to December 1945

  44-77553 - USAAF (USA)

9 December 1944

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

Assigned to Air Transport Command based at Baer Field, IN.

Unknown date

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, 813^th AAF Base Unit, Squadron B, Sedalia AAF, MO.

Used for combat crew training.

14 June 1945

Damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Charles M. Schwartz.

23 June 1945

Received major damage at Sedalia AAF, MO in a landing accident.

Pilot: Darrell R. Cammack

  December 1945 to August 1948

  44-77553 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

24 December 1945

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-46281 -  ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

17 August 1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Possibly used in the air bridge between mainland China and Taiwan in 1948-1949.

Fate unknown.