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Commando 44-77607

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77607

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33003

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1539

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1944 to September 1947

  44-77607 - USAAF (USA)


December 1944

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

  September 1947 to unknown date

  44-77607 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 315th Troop Carrier Wing, 34th Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium based at Brady AB, Japan.

13 December 1953

Received minor damage at Kaneda AB, Okinawa, Japan in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Jack C. Shupert

  Unknown date to ca 1961

  0-77607 - ROKAF (REPUBLIC OF KOREA AIR FORCE) (SOUTH KOREA)


Unknown date

Purchased.

Circa 1961

Damaged beyond repair at Pyangyong Do Island, South Korea in a landing accident. [location not identified, supposedly an island off the west coast of South Korea]

The Commando was attempting to land on a beach of Pyangyong Do island but ended up resting in shallow water.

Last edited: 09/04/2024