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Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV; Vietnamese: Tổng công ty Cảng hàng không Việt Nam) is a Vietnamese joint-stock company with 95.4% state-owned shares, based in Ho Chi Minh City. The company, operated under the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam , was founded on January 8, 2012 when three companies operating airports in the north ...
Vietnam Airlines has its origins in January 1956, [15] [16] when it was established by the North Vietnamese government under the name Vietnam Civil Aviation (Vietnamese: Hàng không Việt Nam, lit. 'Vietnam Aviation') following the nationalization of Gia Lam Airport. It was instituted after the government signed the Decree No. 666/TTg. [17]
Viet Nam Travel Airlines JSC (Vietnamese: CTCP Hàng không Lữ hành Việt Nam), [2] [3] operating as Vietravel Airlines, is a Vietnamese travel airline owned by the Vietravel Holdings, registered in Huế, Central Vietnam.
The airline has its head office in the Vạn Phúc Diplomatic Corps in Ba Đình district, Hanoi [10] It was the first privately owned airline to be established in Vietnam, [4] and as of its launch in December 2011, it became the second private airline (after Air Mekong) to offer domestic service in Vietnam, as well as the fifth airline overall ...
Air Viet Nam's initial fleet consisted of five Cessna 170s, Douglas DC-3s and Douglas DC-4s with the airline flying mainly between cities and towns throughout Vietnam. By 1975, Air Viet Nam was using a fleet of Boeing aircraft, some leased from Pan Am and China Airlines consisting of a number of Boeing 707s and Boeing 727s on both regional and ...
A Vietnam Civil Aviation Ilyushin Il-18 in 1977. The airline sector of Vietnam Civil Aviation was later reorganized to become the nowadays Vietnam Airlines.. The agency was founded as Vietnam Civil Aviation (Cục Hàng không Dân dụng Việt Nam) in January 1956 by the Vietnam People's Air Force (Ministry of Defense), upon the issuance of Decision No.666/TTG of the Vietnamese government.
The name Việt Nam (pronounced [viə̂tˀ nāːm], chữ Hán: 越南), literally "Viet South", means "Viet of the South" per Vietnamese word order or "South of the Viet" per Classical Chinese word order. [15] A variation of the name, Nanyue (or Nam Việt, 南越), was first documented in the 2nd century BC. [16]
Four-plane defoliant run, part of Operation Ranch Hand. Operation Ranch Hand was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971.Largely inspired by the British use of chemicals 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (Agent Orange) during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s, it was part of the overall herbicidal warfare program during the war called "Operation Trail Dust".