Commando 44-77630

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77630

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33026

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1562

FATE: Unknown

  January 1945 to September 1947

  44-77630 - USAAF (USA)

January 1945

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

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

20 April 1945

Damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a ground accident.

While parked at Sedalia AAF, MO, the Commando was hit by a sistership of the same unit taxiing nearby.

  September 1947 to December 1954

  44-77630 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to the Oklahoma City Air Material Area based at Dobbins AFB, GA.

17 December 1954

Damaged beyond repair at Atlanta Municipal, GA in a landing accident.

Pilot: Wendell L. Stultz [this information from USAF accident records would indicate that the aircraft was written off]

  January 1953 to June 1953

  N3701C - AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING FOUNDATION (USA)

14 January 1953

Registered.

11 June 1953

Registration canelled. [this contradictory information from FAA records would indicate that the aircraft was not in the USAF anymore by 1953. Alternatively, it may have been on loan from the USAF during that period]