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Commando 44-77593

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77593

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 32989

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1525

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1944 to September 1947

  44-77593 - USAAF (USA)


December 1944

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

  September 1947 to unknown date

  44-77593 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Probably assigned to a Troop Carrier Wing based in Japan.

  Unknown dates

  0-77593 - ROKAF (REPUBLIC OF KOREA AIR FORCE) (SOUTH KOREA)


Unknown date

Purchased.

 

Right: 0-77593 after a beach landing on the island of Baengnyong, South Korea in 1965.
Photo credit: bemil.chosun.com

  Unknown dates

  44-77593 - USAF (USA)


Unknown date

Returned.

13 November 1974

Carcass offered for sale at Bupyong, South Korea. Total airframe time: 10,855 hours.

No buyer known, fate unknown.

Last edited: 05/04/2024