Commando 43-47345
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47345
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 416
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK393
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
May 1945 to April 1946
43-47345 - USAAF (USA)
18 May 1945
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Saint Louis, MO.
28 May 1945
Departed the USA for China via Karachi, Sindh, India.
Assigned to ATC India-China Division.
30 June 1945
Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a taxi accident.
Pilot: Norman S. Spitzer (survived)
Unknown date
Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.
1947 to December 1949
XT-136 - CNAC (CHINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORPORATION) (CHINA)
1947
Transferred.
Mid-1949
Ferried to Hong Kong after the Nationalist defeat in mainland China.
13 November 1949
Registration certificate suspended by the Nationalist government.
16 November 1949
Impounded by British Authorities under threat from the Communist Chinese government.
December 1949
XT-136 - 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 February 1953
N8371C - CAT (CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT) (TAIWAN)
19 December 1949
Transferred to CAT.
2 April 1950
Damaged at Hong Kong Kai Tak by a time bomb planted by Communist Chinese agents.
January 1953
Probably transported on board aircraft carrier CVE-92 Windham Bay from Hong Kong to the USA.
26 February 1953
Registration cancelled.
February 1955 to unknown date
N2024A - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)
3 February 1955
Registered.
4 March 1955
Registration cancelled.
Last edited: 12/08/2023