Commando 43-47390

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 43-47390

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 460

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CK438

FATE: Unknown

  June 1945 to April 1946

  43-47390 - USAAF (USA)

29 June 1945

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

24 July 1945

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

15 November 1945

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to December 1949

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

15 April 1946

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)

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

  N8375C - CAT (CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT) (TAIWAN)

19 December 1949

Transferred to CAT.

1953

Withdrawn from use.

7 October 1965

Registration cancelled.