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Commando 44-77670

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77670

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33066

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1602

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1945 to February 1946

  44-77670 - USAAF (USA)


11 January 1945

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

11 February 1945

Assigned to the 8th Air Force.

Departed the USA for Europe.

Early 1945

Probably assigned to the 9th Air Force, 52nd Troop Carrier Wing.

20 July 1945

Returned to the USA at Bradley Field, CT.

  February 1946 to December 1947

  44-77670 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


20 February 1946

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

  December 1947 to January 1948

  N1660M - NATIONAL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)


11 December 1947

Purchased from RFC by L. L. Wassenberg of National Aircraft Corporation.

  January 1948 to June 1948

  CU-P183 - UNKNOWN OPERATOR (CUBA)


30 January 1948

Delivered from Miami, FL to Havana, Cuba.

Leased from the National Aircraft Corporation by an unknown Cuban operator.

  June 1948 to February 1949

  N1660M - NATIONAL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)


14 June 1948

Reregistered in the name of Claire C. Wassenberg of Marion, FL, wife of L. L. Wassenberg of National Aircraft Corporation.

Presumably returned from lease to Cuba.

[noted by AB as purchased by Robert L. Brown on 15 November 1948, but unconfirmed]

15 February 1949

Registation cancelled, exported to Panama.

  February 1949 to August 1949

  RX-145 - LAPSA (LINEAS AEREAS DE PANAMA SA) (PANAMA)


9 February 1949

Purchased.

Apparently never delivered to Israel, even though LAPSA was a screen company created for that very purpose.

  August 1949 to November 1950

  YV-C-CAG - CAVE (COMPANIA AEREA DE VIAJES EXPRESOS) (VENEZUELA)


21 August 1949

Purchased.

  November 1950 to February 1961

  XH-TNC (II) - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES) (HONDURAS)


17 November 1950

Purchased.

  February 1961 to ca 1967

  HR-TNC - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES) (HONDURAS)


February 1961

Reregistered.

 

Right: HR-TNC in Miami, FL on 4 August 1967.
Photo credit: P. R. Keeting / NA3T

  Ca 1967 to unknown date

  HP-463 - INAIR PANAMA (dba INTERNACIONAL DE AVIACION) (PANAMA)


Circa 1967

Purchased.

1973

Withdrawn from use and stored at Panama City Tocumen, Panama.

Fate unknown.

 

Below, left: HP-463 in Miami, FL with Inair in December 1968.
Photo credit: Bo-Goran Lunkvist / Rainer Haufschild / Aird Archives

Below, right: the same on 20 November 1971, already parked in the grass at Panama City Tocumen, Panama.
Photo credit: Ger Buskermolen / Airliners.net

Last edited: 12/05/2024