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Vietnam Peoples Air Force - History - 1964-1974 (North Vietnam) The T-28 was the first North Vietnamese aircraft to shoot down a U S aircraft, a C-123, on February 15, 1964 The North Vietnamese Air Force (NVAF) received its first jet fighter aircraft, the MiG-17 in February 1964, but they were initially stationed at air bases in Communist China, while their pilots were being trained
List of aircraft losses of the Vietnam War - Wikipedia A C-47 was the very first USAF aircraft lost in the SEA conflict, C-47B 44-76330 (315th Air Division) on TDY at Vientiane, Laos which was shot down by the Pathet Lao on 23 March 1961 killing seven of the eight crewmen
The Rise of North Vietnams Air Defense - HistoryNet One of the early fighter pilots, Nguyen Van Be, got the North Vietnamese Air Force’s first aerial kill while flying a former Laotian North American T-28—essentially an armed primary trainer—when he downed a South Vietnamese Fairchild C-123 over Laos on Feb 16, 1964
Vietnam Peoples Air Force | Military Wiki | Fandom The first North Vietnamese combat plane was a T-28 Trojan trainer, whose pilot defected from the Royal Lao Air Force; it was utilized from early 1964 by the North Vietnamese as a night fighter The T-28 was the first North Vietnamese aircraft to shoot down a U S aircraft, a C-123, on February 15, 1964 [1]
Fairchild C-123 Provider - Wikipedia While conducting the drop, the C-123 was shot down by a Sandinista soldier, using a SA-7 Grail CIA pilots Wallace "Buzz" Sawyer and William Cooper were killed in the crash
Crash of a Fairchild C-123K Provider in Khe Sanh: 50 killed Shortly later, the airplane was hit by ground fire The left engine caught fire and the airplane crashed in a dense wooded area located 2 km from the airfield All 50 occupants were killed, 5 crew members, 44 soldiers and one civilian photographer S Sgt Noel Luis Rios Shot down by enemy fire
C-123 Provider - Vietnam Air Losses The first American fixed-wing aircraft lost in South Vietnam was a Ranch Hand C-123 Provider spray aircraft that crashed on 2 February 1962 Eight Ranch Hand C-123s were lost during the war as they p