Commando 44-77607

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

  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 315^th Troop Carrier Wing, 34^th 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.