Commando 43-47339

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47339

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 410

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK387

FATE: Unknown

  May 1945 to May 1946

  43-47339 - USAAF (USA)

10 May 1945

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

16 May 1945

Departed the USA for China via Karachi, Sindh, India.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  May 1946 to December 1949

  XT-??? - CNAC (CHINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORPORATION) (CHINA)

15 May 1946

Purchased.

May 1949

Ferried to Hong Kong after the Nationalist defeat in mainland China, and impounded by British Authorities under threat from the Communist Chinese government.

13 November 1949

Registration certificate suspended by the Nationalist government.

  December 1949

  XT-??? - CLAIRE L. CHENNAULT & WHITING WILLAUER (USA)

12 December 1949

Purchased by Claire Chennault & Whiting Willauer, managers of CAT – while still grounded at Hong Kong Kai Tak. This was part of an attempt supported by the US State Department to regain ownership of several CNAC & CATC aircraft.

  December 1949 to January 1950

  N8376C - CAT (CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT) (TAIWAN)

19 December 1949

Transferred to CAT.

December 1949

Withdrawn from use.

11 January 1950

Registration cancelled.

Fate unknown.