Commando 44-77584

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77584

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32980

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1516

FATE: Unknown

  December 1944 to September 1947

  44-77584 - USAAF (USA)

December 1944

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

  September 1947 to September 1955

  44-77584 - 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.

27 November 1952

Received major damage at Chuncheon (K-47), Korea in a landing accident due to weather.

  September 1955 to October 1970

  51-1104 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

5 September 1955

Leased from the US Department of Defense as part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP).

31 March 1970

Suffered an undocumented accident.

31 October 1970

Disposed of. [the accident above might have been the reason of that early disposal - there is no information as to whether the aircraft flew again after it]

Right: 51-1104 landing at Nagoya, Japan on 20 September 1965.
Photo credit: apphg / flyteam.jp

Below: the same at some base open day at Tachikawa AB, Japan on 12 May 1968.
Photo credit: apphg / flyteam.jp & Toshiro Hara / Airliners.net