Commando 44-77620

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77620

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33016

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1552

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944 to September 1947

  44-77620 - USAAF (USA)

December 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, 807^th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX.

17 March 1945

Damaged at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Arnold L. Gauthier

While taxiing at Bergstrom AAF, TX, the Commando hit sistership 44-77721 of the same unit. Both airplanes were damaged.

  September 1947 to unknown date

  44-77620 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 315^th Troop Carrier Group, Medium, 43^rd Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium based at Brady AB, Japan.

17 July 1952

Received major damage at Brady AB, Japan in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Charles Henry Duke

21 October 1953

Received major damage at Suwon (K-13), Korea in a ground fire. [it is uncertain whether the airplane caught fire on the ground or was hit by ground fire]

Pilot: William N. Lee

Fate unknown.