Boeing 307 Stratoliner (#1998) Royal Air Lao XW-TFP (1975)

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Requires the Boeing 307 Stratoliner (commercial product) for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

About the Airline 

Royal Air Lao was the national air carrier of the Kingdom of Laos, it operated from 1962 to 1976.

About the plane

Stratoliner #1998 was one of five SA-307B Stratoliner built for TWA.
The SA-307B had two-stage supercharged engines with cowling flaps.

It bore several registrations :
- Boeing initially registered it as NX19906 ;
- Delivered in 1940 to TWA as NX1940 "Cherokee" ;
- In 1942 it was converted to a C-75 and started its service in the USAAF as 42-88623 "Cherokee" ;
- Went back to TWA in 1944 as N1940, upgraded to the SA-307B-1 Stratoliner standard ;
- All five SA-307B-1 were bought from TWA in April 1951 by french airline Aigle Azur ; #1998 was registered F-BELU ; 
- Used for a while by another french airline, AirNautic, providing charter flights in the Mediterranean, especially around Corsica.
- Bought by Compagnie Internationale de Transports Civil Aériens (CITCA) in 1965, to be leased out to operators in the Indochina peninsula, like Civil Air Transport and Commission Internationale de Contrôle (International Control Commission) 
- Finally registered as XW-TFP, used by Cambodia Air Commercial and Royal Air Lao.

The pilot of XW-TFP was forced to ditch in the Mekong river on March 13, 1975, near the Laos-Thailand border while on a cargo flight between Hong Kong and Vientiane.
Both the pilot and co-pilot escaped the wreck but were captured by the communist Pathet Lao and held until May. The wreckage was still there in 1986.

Sources

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Boeing_307_Stratoliner
https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/XW-TFP/758230
https://rzjets.net/aircraft/?typeid=326

History

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