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Saturday, May 25, 2019
Air Vietnam
When I first saw this postcard I immediately thought CIA, but quickly realized, no that was Air America. Anyway, I'm kind of a transportation buff, and I like old airplanes, so what the hell, I bought it. Air Viet Nam, as it's spelled on the back of the card, was founded in 1951 with a fleet of Cessna 170's. Not an ambitious start, but then the original purpose of the airline was to connect small, rural villages with cities. With the beginning of the Vietnam war, the airline had a major expansion. Lot's of soldiers needed to be moved. For flights in country, they mostly used prop planes, like the Douglas DC-3, 4, 5, and 6. For overseas flights, jets.
So, the captions, "AIR VIET NAM, Douglass DC-6, XV-NUD, MSN 42876, Saigon 1970." "Photo Courtesy: David C. Goss"
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