Commando 44-77681

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77681

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33077

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1613

FATE: Unknown

  January 1945 to March 1946

  44-77681 - USAAF (USA)

11 January 1945

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

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command based at Baer Field, IN.

Remained within the continental USA

Unknown date

Assigned to the 439^th Troop Carrier Group, 92^th Troop Carrier Squadron based at Sedalia AAF, MO.

Marked "J8".

16 January 1946

Damaged at Sedalia AAF, MO in a ground accident while parked.

While parked on the apron at Sedalia AAF, MO, the Commando was hit by sistership 44-78178 which was being taxied nearby by Robert Graff.

  March 1946 to August 1948

  44-77681 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

1 March 1946

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.

  August 1948 to unknown date

  C-46289 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

18 August 1948

Departed Oakland, CA for delivery to Shanghai, China.

Fled to Taiwan.

Last noted in 1957.