Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The only operational aircraft at Pochentong Air Base are from the VIP squadron. Maintenance of aircraft and helicopters is also at Pochentong. The airworthy Z-9 and Mi-17 helicopters from the helicopter squadron are based at Phnom Penh International Airport and Siem Reap International Airport.
A light aircraft carrier, or light fleet carrier, is an aircraft carrier smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type varies by country; light carriers typically have a complement of aircraft only one-half to two-thirds the size of a full-sized fleet carrier .
Some commercial carriers choose to refer to their aircraft using flight haul type terms, for example: Delta Air Lines referred to its Boeing 717 , MD-88 and MD-90 as short-haul domestic aircraft; Boeing 757 , Boeing 737 , Airbus A319 and A321 as long-haul domestic; and its transoceanic Boeing 757 , 767 , 777 and Airbus A330 as long-haul.
ATR-72-500. Air Cambodia is a full-service airline founded in July 2009, by both the Cambodian Government and Vietnam Airlines with an initial capital of $100 million. It offers both Business and Economy class on-board its Airbus aircraft, while only economy class is available on board the ATR 72.
Yankee Station (officially Point Yankee) was a fixed coordinate off the coast of Vietnam where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and support ships operated in open waters over a nine-year period during the Vietnam War. The location was used primarily by aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 to launch strikes over North Vietnam. While the coordinate's ...
An uncrewed Chinese military aircraft flew with its tracker switched on close to Vietnam's coast last week, a South China Sea research body told Reuters, the first time in the group's five years ...
All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 2,197 of the losses were fixed-wing, and the remainder rotary-wing. The USAF sustained approximately 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties during the ...
The company was founded in 1956. After the establishment of the Khmer Republic in 1970, the airline was re-named 'Air Cambodge'. It was reformed, under the original name 'Royal Air Cambodge', after the restoration of the monarchy and democracy in the early 1990s and the recovery of the economy in 1994.