c/n 661

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c/n 661

    53-2845  L-207

53-2845

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•  Delivered 15-Apr-1954

• 53-2845 US ARMY • # 1394 • L-20 No: 395 • Command A-4

• L-207 CIA • 01-Mar-1962

• Crashed Xieng Dat 06-Apr-1962

• 4K

• Disposition unknown •

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From: Dr. Leeker Documents*:

DHC-2 (L-20) L-207 661 1 March 62 leased from US Army 53-2845

Service history: arrived at Bangkok in crates on 15 February 62, to be operated under the Madriver Contract AF62(531)-1674, based at Vientiane, but maintained at Udorn (Minutes ExCom-AACL of 23 January 62, in: UTD/CIA/B7F1); assembled by Thai Airways according to contract no. BKK 62-001 (Memorandum dated 9 February 62, in: UTD/Fink/B2F16); officially received at Bangkok on 1 March 62 (Aircraft list of June 62, corrected to Sept.1963, in: UTD/Kirkpatrick/B1F1).

Fate: crashed near Sam Thong (LS-20), Laos, at Xieng Dat (LS-26) on 6 April 62, in a take-off accident resulting from an insufficient runway and killing the pilots (William H. Beale Jr. and George A. Varney) and 2 MAAG soldiers; the aircraft was too heavy, hit a tree stump at the right side of the runway on take-off roll, cartwheeled, burst into flames and killed all on board (Memorial; Memorial file, in: UTD/LaShomb/B16F3; List “Aircraft destroyed or lost”, in: UTD/CIA/B49F2; Aircraft accidents 1962, in: UTD/CIA/B49F2; e-mail dated 5 July 2005, kindly sent to the author (Leeker) by Major James MacFarlane; e-mails dated 6 July 2005, kindly sent to the author (Leeker) by Joe Hazen).        

* http://www.utdallas.edu/library/collections/speccoll/Leeker/index3.html