Commando 44-77672

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77672

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33068

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1604

FATE: Unknown

  January 1945 to December 1945

  44-77672 - USAAF (USA)

11 January 1945

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

14 February 1945

Assigned to the 8^th Air Force.

Departed the USA for Europe.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 9^th Air Force, 52^nd Troop Carrier Wing, 313^th Troop Carrier Group, 49^th Troop Carrier Squadron based at Grevillers-Achiet (B-54), France.

Marked "H2".

24 March 1945

Damaged over Germany during Operation Varsity.

24 July 1945

Returned to the USA at Bradley Field, CT.

  December 1945 to 1948

  44-77672 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

21 December 1945

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

ca 1948

Taken out of storage and overhauled by TALOA under a US Government contract to prepare the aircraft for delivery to China.

  1948 to unknown date

  C-46268 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Fate unknown.