Commando 44-77570

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77570

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32966

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1502

FATE: Written off

  December 1944 to January 1945

  44-77570 - USAAF (USA)

17 December 1944

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

22 January 1945

Assigned to the 8^th Air Force.

22 January 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Port Liautey, French Morocco [present day Kenitra AB] in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Roger S. Phillips

The Commando was apparently being ferried to North Africa, and crashed on takeoff from Port Liautey where it had made an intermediate stop.

Condemned by Ferry Command.