During a holiday in Vietnam I snapped a few aircraft in museums. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to visit the airforce museums which I understand are very good, or what I think is a cafe at Ho Chi Minh City airport which looks as though it uses a Tu134 and an AN2 as there were things like temples and bays to look at as well.
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F5E in the grounds of the Reunification Palace HCMC (ex Saigon), former Presidential Palace. Represents the aircraft which attacked the palace in the dying days of the war.
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UH1 on the roof of the above Palace. Parked near the private cinema, gaming room, and night club.
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Chinook at the War Remnants Museum
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What I believe is Skyraider debris at the Military Museum, again HCMC.
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Again the Military Museum. An A37 in the last stages of decay. They do have a reasonably nicely presented F5.
By: Good Vibs - 8th December 2013 at 00:20
I don’t think one could trust any of the markings, incl numbers.
They appear to have been repainted.
I’am sure by those who would not care about such things.
The only way would be to see the manu plates,etc for the real serial numbers.
Probably the only correct markings or serials are those from the crashed /shot down aircraft that are on display!
By: RedRedWine - 7th December 2013 at 23:14
Sorry, I ought to have noted serials but didn’t. (An excuse to return!) The Chinook above seems to have a code 6086 on the tail. There’s another in Hanoi which is in Vietnamese colours with a code of 19082 on the tail – sorry, I know nothing of the US coding and serials of the period and even less about the Vietnamese system.
The MiGs (17 and the 21’s I saw) were all “allegedly” ones which had a record of downing several US aircraft.
The caption in the museum said Hellcat, referring to the French period, and Wikipaedia, for what it’s worth, says Aeronavale operated F6F-5s in Indochina. Whether there is any Hellcat in the pile is anybody’s guess.
As an aside, the repaints of the aircraft have involved replacing the stenciling, which in some cases results in garbled English. Let me know if you want to see.
By: David Layne - 7th December 2013 at 22:13
[QUOTE=Good Vibs;2093920]Excellent.
Always nice to see whats left and how its displayed.
To know the actual/real serial numbers would be interesting of course.
Thanks
I wondered if the Chinook was “my” aircraft as I know it was turned over to the South Vietnamese.
By: Good Vibs - 7th December 2013 at 20:55
Excellent.
Always nice to see whats left and how its displayed.
To know the actual/real serial numbers would be interesting of course.
Thanks
PS:I assume Bearcat is whats meant and not Hellcat?
By: RedRedWine - 7th December 2013 at 20:36
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AD6 at the Military Museum in Hue.
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MiG17, Military Museum in Hanoi, as are all the following.
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IL14 transport
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AD5 Skyraider
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AD6 Skyraider
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Pile of remnants of shot-down aircraft. Purports to include B52, Hellcat, and F111 parts, though it looks to me as though the bulk is C47/AC47.
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December 7, 2013 at 8:24 pm