Commando 43-47279

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47279

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 350

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK327

FATE: Unknown

  April 1945

  43-47279 - USAAF (USA)

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6 April 1945

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Saint Louis, MO.

  April 1945 to February 1960

  43-47279 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

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13 April 1945

Departed the USA for China, transferred as part of Lend-Lease agreement.

[according to AB, this aircraft rather served in the USAAF until 15 April 1946, at which time it was purchased from the surplus in Chungking, Sichuan, China]

ca 1949

Evacuated to Taiwan.

  February 1960 to July 1960

  B-1509 - CHINA AIRLINES (TAIWAN)

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6 February 1960

Registered.

  July 1960 to mid-1960's

  XW-PAI - VEHA AKAT (LAOS)

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July 1960

Leased from China Airlines, but actually operated by ROCAF's Black Bat Squadron.

Flown in cargo configuration and Veha Akat livery by Taiwanese crews.

Used in military anti-communist support missions over Burma and Laos, flying supplies to YAVA (Yunnan Anticommunist Volunteer Army) and Taiwanese troops deployed in the region.

 

Right: XW-PAI observed by young spotters in Vientiane, Laos in 1963 or 1964.
Photo credit: Dave Hickler / UTD/Hickler/B54, photo no. 1-DH54-8-PB28

  Mid-1960's to unknown date

  B-1509 - CHINA AIRLINES (TAIWAN)

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Mid-1960's

Returned from lease to Veha Akat.

Fate unknown.