China National Aviation Corporation

CNAC Logo, taken from CNAC Zhejiang Branch aircraft, which was merged with Air China.

(中國航空公司 or CNAC) was an airline in the Republic of China. It was established in 1929 as China Airways by Curtiss-Wright, under the leadership of U.S. airline magnate Clement Keys. In 1933, after a series of disastrous accidents and disagreements with Chiang Kai-shek, Keys sold the company to Pan American World Airways, under the control of Keys' arch-rival Juan Trippe. Pan Am placed CNAC under the control of banker and aviator Harold Bixby. CNAC eventually operated routes from Shanghai to Peiping, Chungking, and Canton, using Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 aircraft. It ceased operations following the Chinese revolution of 1949 when CAAC took over to become the sole airline of China. However, CNAC remains a subsidiary of CAAC and incorporated in Hong Kong. In the 1980s, CNAC acted as the overseas ticket agency of CAAC. CNAC launched its own airline, CNAC Zhejiang, in Hangzhou with Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft and later Airbus A320 and A319 aircraft, with the same logo painted on the aircraft's tails as in 1929. CNAC merged into Air China along with China Southwest Airlines when the CAAC decided to consolidate the nine major state-owned airlines into three groups. CNAC Logo. ... CNAC Logo. ... Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is a eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Air China (Chinese: 中国国际航空公司, Zhōngguó Guójì Hángkōng GōngsÄ«, literally Chinese International Aviation Company, abbreviated 国航) is the Peoples Republic of Chinas state owned and largest commercial airline (not to be confused with China Airlines, which is the Republic of China (Taiwan)s state airline), and... A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... 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