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Commando 44-77678

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77678

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33074

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1610

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1945 to September 1947

  44-77678 - USAAF (USA)

January 1945

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

  September 1947 to unknown date

  44-77678 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

8 March 1952

Received major damage at Edmonton Municipal, AB in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Marvin B. Sullivan

Fate unknown [the aircraft may have been condemned after that accident].

 

Right: 44-77678 pancaked after the runway end at Edmonton, AB on 8 March 1952
Photo credit: Leslie Corness (picture erroneously dated winter 1946)

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Last edited: 12/05/2024