Commando 44-77685

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77685

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33081

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1617

FATE: Unknown

  January 1945 to February 1946

  44-77685 - USAAF (USA)

15 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, 807^th AAF Base Unit, Bergstrom AAF, TX, Squadron C.

13 March 1945

Damaged at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a ground accident.

While parked at Bergstrom AAF, TX, the Commando was hit by sistership 44-77679 of the same unit taxied nearby by Aubrey C. Berry.

  February 1946 to circa 1948

  44-77685 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

19 February 1946

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

  Circa 1948 to unknown date

  44-77685 - USAF (USA)

ca 1948

Returned to USAF service.

Assigned to the 2472^nd Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Fairfax Field, KS.

5 June 1949

Received major damage at Fairfax Field, KS in a landing accident.

Pilot: Virgil J. Hastka [name probably misspelled]

Fate unknown.