The Clone Naval Air Service (CNAS) has retired it's final twenty K40N Ford fighters, the carrier capable version of the K40. The K40N had been developed for the original HCS Navy's carrier though when the carrier project was cancelled along with most of the HCS Navy at the end of the Clone Wars the K40Ns already built were transferred to the air force. When the new Clone Navy was formed and new carriers ordered the K40Ns were returned to naval hands.
By then the K40Ns were near the end of the their lives and only a handful were considered still safe to use on carrier operations. However they did help the Clone Navy in it's early days of carrier operations before the arrival of the K45K. The survivors have been used mostly for "aggressor" training from shore bases over the last couple of years but now they have been finally retired.
