|
Description
| Manufacturer: | Fairchild | |
| Base model: | C-31 | |
| Designation: | XC-31 | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1925-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
| Status: | Experimental | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| Pete McCallum Landover, MD | A question, actually, not a comment. In the Washington Post magazine of Sunday, 12 June 2005, there's an article about a Vietnamese family that was evacuated to the US following the fall of Saigon in 1975. It states that they flew from Vietnam in "a C-31 transport." That designation was new to me; I'd never seen it mentioned in anything written on the subject of the US involvement in SE Asia, nor could I find it in the Jane's reference I have. Thanks to your website, I now know there is such an aircraft, but I'm still dubious that the USAF ever flew it in Vietnam, and it doesn't look to me like an aircraft that could have made it from there to Europe or the US unrefueled (although I suppose it could have made it to Thailand, for example). Did any US agency, military or civilian, fly this Fokker aircraft in SE Asia, or has the author of the Post article scrambled the designation, confusing it perhaps with a C-130?
Thanks very much for any light you can shed. -Pete McC. 06/16/2005 @ 15:04 [ref: 10507] |
Recent photos uploaded by our visitors
