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Commando 44-77592

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77592

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32988

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1524

FATE: Preserved

Operational Record

  December 1944 to September 1947

  44-77592 - USAAF (USA)

December 1944

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

Early 1945

Assigned to the 9th Air Force, 52nd Troop Carrier Wing, 313th Troop Carrier Group, 29th Troop Carrier Squadron based at RAF Folkingham, England.

Marked "5X-I".

24 March 1945

Damaged over Germany during Operation Varsity.

 

Right: 44-77592 on takeoff, unknown date & location.
Photo credit: Carl Gwartney Collection / San Diego Air & Space Museum

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  September 1947 to unknown date

  44-77592 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 437th Troop Carrier Wing based at Brady AB, Japan.

 

Below: two different liveries of 44-77592 with the 437th TCW.
Photo credit: Caracal Models

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  Unknown dates

  0-77592 - ROKAF (REPUBLIC OF KOREA AIR FORCE) (SOUTH KOREA)

Unknown date

Purchased.

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  Unknown date to present

  0-77592 - KOREAN WAR MEMORIAL (SOUTH KOREA)

Unknown date

Transferred to the Korea War Memorial, Seoul, South Korea and displayed outdoor.

 

Left: 0-77592 at the Korean War Memorial in Pusan, South Korea on 28 May 2022.
Photo credit: unknown / v.daum.net

Last edited: 06/04/2024