Commando 44-77676

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77676

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33072

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1608

FATE: Unknown

  January 1945 to January 1946

  44-77676 - USAAF (USA)

11 January 1945

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

13 February 1945

Assigned to the 8^th Air Force.

Departed the USA for Europe.

Early 1945

Probably assigned to the 9^th Air Force, 52^nd Troop Carrier Wing.

24 July 1945

Returned to the USA at Bradley Field, CT.

Late 1945

Assigned to the Air Transport Command, 554^th AAF Base Unit, Memphis AAF, TN.

1 January 1946

Damaged at Patterson AAF, OH in a ground accident.

Pilot: Robert H. Kahler

The Commando ran into Douglas C-117A 45-2553 parked nearby. Both aircraft were damaged.

  January 1946 to August 1948

  44-77676 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

16 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-46285 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

28 August 1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Fate unknown.