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Tag: Consolidated Commodore

Stories and photos related to the Consolidated Commodore and the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC)

China's Wings

Gigantic China’s Wings photo gallery

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Gregory / 19 Comments

Classic aviation photos of flying in China in the 1930s and 1940s pertaining to the China National Aviation Corporation, a Chinese-American civil aviation partn...

China's Wings

Old photograph fever sweeps China

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Gregory / 0 Comment

Apparently, the Communist party frowned on China's history as "black time," and its scourging of past associations caused most Chinese to purge their family pho...

China's Wings

Another adventure in the Consolidated Commodore

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Gregory / 14 Comments

None of his passengers got so much as a scratch, and CNAC’s sole surviving Loening Air Yacht retrieved them in relays to Hankow. Recovering the stranded Commo...

China's Wings

The Last Consolidated Commodore

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Gregory / 0 Comment

Building on the CNAC and the Consolidated Commodore post I made yesterday, a few weeks ago, Jerry Butsko, a volunteer archivist at the San Diego Air and Space M...

China's Wings

CNAC and the Consolidated Commodore

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Gregory / 1 Comment

CNAC desperately needed airplanes in late 1937, and Bond tipped Colonel Lam to the existence of two Pan Am Commodores languishing in Manila. Beginning in early ...

China's Wings

The Consolidated Commodore

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Gregory / 0 Comment

Photo of the Consolidated Commodore flying boat

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