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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 1958, Pilatus began design work on a short takeoff and landing (STOL) light civil transport aircraft which emerged as the PC-6 Porter; this aircraft first flew on 4 May 1959. [9] [14] The Porter was also manufactured under license by Fairchild Hiller in the United States. Roughly 100 of these licence-produced aircraft would be completed ...
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 ...
Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including providing support for drug smuggling in Laos.
R. 1975 Royal Nepal Airlines Pilatus PC-6 Porter crash. Category: Aviation accidents and incidents by aircraft.
Ernest C. Brace. Ernest Cary Brace (August 15, 1931 – December 5, 2014) was the longest-held civilian prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War. [ 5] A decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot and mustang, Brace was court-martialed in 1961 for attempting to fake his own death. He flew as a civilian contract pilot before being captured in Laos ...