Royal Air Lao
| Royal Air Lao | |
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| IATA code : | RY |
| ICAO code : | RY |
| Call sign : | unknown |
| Founding: | 1961 |
| Operation stopped: | 1975 |
| Seat: |
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| Home airport : | Vientiane airport |
| Fleet size: | |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Royal Air Lao ceased operations in 1975. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Royal Air Lao was a Laotian airline based at Vientiane Airport . The company had ceased operations in late 1975 after the country was banned from the ICAO as a result of the political upheaval .
history
Royal Air Lao was founded in 1961 as the successor to Air Laos Transports Aeriens in what was then the Kingdom of Laos . Initially, the company, which at that time was 40 percent state-owned, used three Douglas DC-3 and one Douglas DC-4 aircraft on national routes and internationally from Vientiane to Bangkok , Hong Kong and Saigon . A DHC Beaver added to the fleet in 1965.
A political upheaval and the takeover of power by the communist resistance movement Pathet Lao in the country meant the end of international flight operations, for which Royal Air Lao was responsible as the Laotian flag carrier . The national Lao Air Lines flew domestically . After flight operations ceased on March 24, 1976, six stored former Royal Air Lao aircraft were destroyed in a storm.
fleet
| Type | introduction | Retirement | Remarks | image |
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| Boeing 307 Stratoliner | 1960s; XW-TFP and XW-PGR | 1975 | Adapted from Aigle Azur (1946) , XW-PGR accident in 1971 and XW-TFP crash in 1975 |
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| Douglas DC-3 | 1962 | 1975 | The aircraft XW-TAD crashed on February 24, 1968, XW-TAF, XW-TDR were destroyed in a storm in March 1976. XW-TDR came to Laos from New Zealand on January 10, 1970 and started operating on January 16, 1970. | |
| Curtiss Commando | 1968 | 1974 | XW-PMF, XW-PFP. XW-PBW, taken over by Air America , the former machine was ceded to Cambodia Air in March 1975 . |
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| Douglas DC-4 Douglas C-54 | 1962 | XW-PND, XW-PNF, XW-PNI were destroyed in a storm in 1976, XW-PKH on the ground in Pnom Phen by the Khmer Rouge. XW-TDE crash on February 11, 1972 |
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| Douglas DC-6 | XW-PEH, XW-PFZ | Crash of the XW-PEH machine on February 1, 1972 | ||
| Lockheed L-188 Electra | 1972; XW-PKA and XW-PWB | 1975 | leased from Qantas | |
| Convair CV-440 | XW-PJZ |
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| Vickers Viscount | December 7, 1973, XW-TDN | March 1975 | taken over by Lao Air Lines , destroyed when a non-pilot attempted to take off |
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| Sud Aviation Caravelle | 1972 XW-PNH |
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See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Flight International, December 30, 1962
- ^ Flight International, April 2, 1964
- ^ Flight International, April 15, 1965
- ^ Royal Air Lao on Aviation Safety Network
- ^ Royal Air Lao XW-PGR , aviation-safety.net
- ↑ Royal Air Lao Crash XW-TFP , aviation-safety.net
- ↑ XW-TAD accident report on aviation-safety.net
- ↑ History of the New Zealand DC-3
- ↑ Information on the photo used by Christian Volpati
- ↑ Royal Air Lao on aviation-safety.net
- ↑ XW-TDE (1972)
- ↑ Crash of the XW-PEH machine on February 1, 1972 on aviation-safety.net
- ^ Vickers Viscount Network , History of the XW-TDN Airplane
- ↑ Royal Air Lao Vickers Viscount on aviation-safety.net