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The Pilatus PC-6 Porter is a single-engined STOL utility aircraft designed by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland. First flown in 1959, the PC-6 was produced at Pilatus Flugzeugwerke in Stans, Switzerland. It has been built in both piston engine - and turboprop -powered versions, and was produced under licence for a time by Fairchild Hiller in the ...
Pilatus PC-6 Porter. The Fairchild AU-23 Peacemaker is an American armed gunship, counter-insurgency, utility transport aircraft developed from the Pilatus PC-6 Porter for the United States Air Force. A total of 35 were built under license in the United States by Fairchild Industries, for use during the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Pilatus developed a short takeoff and landing (STOL) light civil transport aircraft, the PC-6 Porter. In 1973, it was decided to restart work on a turbine version of the piston engine trainer P-3 , which entered production as the PC-7 Turbo Trainer .
On 31 March 1975, a Pilatus PC-6 Porter (registration number 9N-AAZ, and serial number 727), [2] operated by Royal Nepal Airlines crashed in Nepal en route from Tribhuvan International Airport to Phaplu Airport on a domestic charter flight. The flight was chartered by Sir Edmund Hillary to bring his wife Louise and daughter Belinda to Phaplu ...
1. On 8 March 2024, a Smart Aviation Pilatus PC-6 aircraft crashed while flying to Binuang Airport at around 09:00 WITA (UTC+8) from Juwata Airport, Tarakan with its final destination being Robert Atty Bessing Airport in Malinau. At the time of the accident, the Smart Aviation aircraft with registration PK-SNE was only carrying 2 crew members ...
[5]: xix Air America aircraft, including the Curtiss C-46 Commando, Pilatus PC-6 Porter, de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou, Lockheed C-130 Hercules, and Fairchild C-123 Provider, along with UH-34D, Bell 204B, Bell 205, and Boeing CH-47C Chinook helicopters, flew many types of cargo to countries such as the Republic of Vietnam, the Kingdom of ...
R. 1975 Royal Nepal Airlines Pilatus PC-6 Porter crash. Category: Aviation accidents and incidents by aircraft.
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