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UTD/Hickler/B1F1); in use out of Saigon at least between 20 April 71 and 24 July 71
(Saigon daily flight schedules, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F1); assigned to contract AID/VN-
100 for use out of Saigon 1-31 July 71 (F.O.Circulars of 1 July 71 and 15 July 71, in:
UTD/ Hickler/B8F7B); in use out of Vientiane at least between 18 May 72 and 17
August 72 (Log book of R. L. Wofford, in: UTD/Wofford [Sm. C. 6]); on 23 February
73, N194X received substantial damage to the tail gear and to the tail cone in South
Vietnam; repaired (Accident note to the USAF, dated 24 Feb. 73, in:
UTD/CIA/B32F1); assigned to contract F04606-71-C-0002 for use out of Vientiane
16-30 April 73, Saigon reassignment pending (F.O.C. of 16 April 73, in:
UTD/Kaufman/B1F14); in use out of Saigon 1 November-31 December 73 on VN-
008 contract (ICCS Air Services); on 8 November 73, the engine of N194X suddenly
stopped in-flight, and the aircraft made an emergency landing in a rice paddy 3 miles
east of Can Tho (V-17) and nosed over; neither the PIC - Capt. H. L. Halstead - nor
the Polish ICCS passenger were injured; both were picked up by a South Vietnamese
Air Force helicopter; repaired (XOXO of 8 Nov. 73, in: UTD/Hickler/B25F12); no
longer with ICCS Air Services, but used as a spare aircraft at Saigon 1-28 February 74
and 1-30 April 74 (F.O.Circulars of 1 November 73, 1 December 73, and 1 April 74,
in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7C; F.O.C. of 1 Feb. 74, in: UTD/CIA/B51F21); stored at
Saigon 1-31 May 74 (F.O.Circular of 1 May 74, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7C).
Fate: boxed and shipped out of Saigon on 22 April 75 (Report dated 28 May 75, in:
UTD/CIA/B18F7; undated report by Boyd D. Mesecher, in: UTD/CIA/B17F4); sold
to Omni Aircraft Sales, Washington, DC, on 19 June 75 (Letter by Clyde S. Carter
dated 28 October 75, in: UTD/CIA/B56F2); although originally destined for New
Orleans, LA, it was taken over in the port of Brooklyn, New York, in June 75; arrived
at New York on 20 June 75 and officially sold there the same day at $ 75,000 (Air
America, owned aircraft as of 30 Sept. 75, in: UTD/CIA/B56F1); regd. to Omni on 10
July 75 (Letters by Paul C. Velte dated 19 June 75 and by Clyde S. Carter dated 28
October 75, in: UTD/CIA/B17F4); returned to Pilatus, Stans, in crates on 27 Aug. 75;
probably intended for the Sudan Air Force, then for the National Agriculture
Organization of Sudan, Khartoum, as ST-AGS, not taken up; still owned by Omni
Aircraft Sales on 31 Oct. 82; sold to Transamazonica Colombia, Villavicencio, as
HK-2994X in 1983; current 83-84; re-regd. as HK-2994 in 1985 (?); current in 1986.
PC-6C N195X somewhere in Laos, taken by Lee Gossett
(with kind permission from the photographer)