Commando 43-47358

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47358

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 429

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK406

FATE: Unknown

  May 1945 to June 1945

  43-47358 - USAAF (USA)

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28 May 1945

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

  June 1945 to unknown date

  43-47358 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

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14 June 1945

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

Transferred as part of Lend-Lease agreement.

  Unknown date to December 1949

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

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Unknown date

Transferred to CNAC.

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

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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 1953

  N8368C - CAT (CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT) (TAIWAN)

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19 December 1949

Transferred to CAT.

27 January 1953

Registration cancelled.

Fate unknown.