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| Date: | Thursday 21 December 1967 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Pilatus PC-6/A-H2 Turbo Porter |
| Owner/operator: | Air America |
| Registration: | N12235 |
| MSN: | 556 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Can Tho (V-17) -
 Vietnam
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Destroyed in night attack.
Sources:
http://www.pc-6.com/history/556.htm
Air America
http://www.utdallas.edu/library/collections/speccoll/Leeker/history/Vietnam1.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 1 January 1970 | XW-PBL | Bird & Sons | 2 | near Luang Prabang (L-54) |  |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-Nov-2010 15:19 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Nov-2010 11:51 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 02-Mar-2012 11:25 | TB | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, ] |
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