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Commando 44-77742

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77742

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33138

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1674

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  January 1945 to September 1947

  44-77742 - USAAF (USA)

22 January 1945

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

Probably assigned to the 5th Air Force, 54th Troop Carrier Wing operating in the Southwest Pacific theater.

26 February 1945

Ferried through Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

  September 1947 to May 1952

  44-77742 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

1 January 1948

Assigned to Tachikawa AB, Japan.

21 May 1952

Reclamation authorized, "somewhere in the Far East".

Last edited: 08/07/2024