Description

Combat Veteran. 298 Hours Since Restoration. Darton Clean Kit.

History:

Service history: converted from T-28A to T-28D by NAMCO, Columbus; to SMAAR, McClellan AFB, Sacramento, on 9 September 68; delivered from McClellan to MAP/Laos, Udorn, on 8 October 68, but GI, that is returned from MAP to McClellan on 8 October 68, so not delivered at that date; redelivered as 49001724 by SMAAR, McClellan AFB, to TL MAP on 7002.

USAF aircraft officially serialled 49-1724, maintained by Air America, Udorn, but flown under the command of AIRA, that is the USAF Attach, Vientiane; current on 1 August 71 , on 1 April 72 (List of Assigned and maintained aircraft at Udorn of 1 April 72, in: UTD/CIA/B49F2), and still on 1 June 73 (List of Assigned and maintained aircraft at Udorn of 1 June 73, in: UTD/Bisson/B5, bore the Erawan; based at Luang Prabang.

Fate: evidently definitively transferred to the RLAF in 1973; transferred to the Lao Air Force (Air Force of the Laos Peoples Army) as 34 in 1975; possibly one of the 29 former RLAF T-28s used by the Air Force of the Laos Peoples Army to bomb Hmong refugees in the hills of Laos in 1976/7).

Stored at Xieng Khouang airfield before 1984, until finally sold to Keith Death of Albury, NSW Australia in 1988; the aircraft was dismantled, trucked to Savannakhet and finally to Bangkok, and then shipped to Sydney in December 1988.

As VH-MEO in May 92; registered. on 29 May 92; painted in a grey Royal Lao Air Force color scheme.

Airframe

3996 Hours Total Time Since New

298 Since Restoration In 1992

Engine(s)

Wright 1820-86B

298 Hours Since Major Overhaul

Prop Specs

Hamilton Standard 43D50-313

298 SPOH

Avionics/Radios

Icom A210VHF

King KX175 Nav com

Narco AT50A Transponder

Additional Equipment

Darton Clean Kit

Year Painted

1992

Exterior

Royal Loatian Air Force - Original Paint Scheme

Year Interior

1992

Interior

Painted Gray

Inspection Status

Annual Completed 11/2013