26 Mar Fairchild C-123B-19-FA Provider – 56-4382 Destroyed on the ground during a Vietcong mortar attack. Continue reading
26 Mar Lockheed C-130A Hercules – 56-0506 Due to a failure in the propeller pitch mechanism one of the engines' propellers could not be used to decelerate. The airplane swerved ... Continue reading
26 Mar Grumman HU-16B Albatross – 51-071 The HU-16B Albatross flying boat was deployed to rescue two crew members of a downed McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom off Haiphong in the... Continue reading
26 Mar Douglas AC-47D Spooky – 43-49268 The AC-47 gunship was operating on an armed reconnaissance mission along Route 92 west of Da Nang. Radio contact was lost some 45 miles... Continue reading
26 Mar Douglas AC-47D Spooky – 44-76290 On March 9,1966, a Douglas AC-47D gunship, call sign "Spooky 70," departed Da Nang Airport (DAD) on a close air support mission for the... Continue reading
26 Mar Fairchild C-123B-13-FA Provider – 55-4537 The Provider transport plane operated on a combat airlift support mission. It went missing over heavily jungled mountains. It was consi... Continue reading
26 Mar Fairchild C-123K Provider – 54-702 The C-123 transport plane carried 42 U.S. Army troops and a load of ammunition and grenades. It was raining and the cloud ceiling was a... Continue reading
26 Mar Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) – B-929 The Douglas C-47 was shot down by Viet Cong. The plane crash-landed and was destroyed by ground fire. All three on board survived the c... Continue reading
26 Mar Fairchild C-123B-12-FA Provider – 55-4519 Crashed following midair collision with Douglas A-1E Skyraider (52-133989) at night while acting as flareship for the Skyraider which w... Continue reading