Commando 44-77727

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77727

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33123

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1659

FATE: Broken up

  January 1945 to August 1946

  44-77727 - USAAF (USA)

18 January 1945

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

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

29 January 1945

Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, 807^th AAFBU, Bergstrom AAF, TX.

23 April 1945

Received major damage at Bergstrom AAF, TX in a takeoff accident due to a mechanical failure.

Pilot: 2^nd Lt. George J. Pramstaller Jr. (survived, pictured)

24 April 1946

Surveyed.

20 August 1946

Reclamation completed. [it is possible that the airplane was never repaired following its April 1945 accident]