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Commando 44-77684

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77684

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33080

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1616

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1945 to March 1946

  44-77684 - USAAF (USA)


16 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 I Troop Carrier Command, 807th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX, Squadron C.

7 June 1945

Damaged at San Angelo AAF, TX in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Lawrence J. Montgomery

While taxiing at San Angelo AAF, TX, the Commando collided with parked North American B-25J Mitchell 44-28749 of the Central Flight Training Command.

  March 1946 to unknown date

  44-77684 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


1 March 1946

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

Fate unknown.

Last edited: 15/05/2024