Commando 44-77823

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 44-77823

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 33219

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1755

FATE: Unknown

  February 1945 to January 1946

  44-77823 - USAAF (USA)

5 February 1945

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

22 March 1945

Assigned to the 8^th Air Force.

Departed the USA for Europe.

Early 1945

Probably assigned to the 9^th Air Force, 52^nd Troop Carrier Wing.

4 August 1945

Returned to the USA at Bradley Field, CT.

  January 1946 to circa 1948

  44-77823 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

9 January 1946

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

Fate unknown. [erroneously quoted as being transferred to ROCAF through TALOA in 1948 as C-46261, but photos prove that aircraft was actually 44-77820]