Curtiss C-46D Commando, 44-77635 / 33031, Pima Air & Space Museum
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Registration: 44-77635
Construction Number: 33031
Code Number: X606 / 477635
Model Curtiss C-46D Commando
Operator: Pima Air & Space Museum
Airport: Tucson - Pima Air and Space Museum, USA - Arizona
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 10/1992
Date Submitted: 29/06/2009
Named 'Syracuse Shackrat' this C-46D is displayed in the markings of the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Combat Cargo Squadron which was based in Townsville, Australia in 1944. Unusually, her engines have names too, the starboard Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 is named 'groan' and the port side is called 'moan'. She is displayed at Pima courtesy of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
Picture ID:1180629