Boun Oum Airways or BOA, was a Laotian Airline owned by Prince Boun Oum. After 1965 BOA expanded using aircraft on loan from

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(CASI). BOA's aircraft did not carry any logo or titles and their

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pilots were integrated with CASI by early 1967.

History

The

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created BOA in 1964 by using resources from both Air America and Bird & Son. BOA was ostensibly owned by Prince

Boun Oum Prince Boun Oum (also Prince Boun Oum Na Champassak; lo, ບຸນອຸ້ມ ນະ ຈຳປາສັກ; th, บุญอุ้ม ณ จัมปาศักดิ์; ; 2 December 1912 – 17 March 1980) was the son of King Ratsadanay, ...

of Laos and was created with the intention of flying missions in Laos with

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n crews (as opposed to

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crews)

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for

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. BOA was based at Savannakhet, Laos. Boum Oum Airlines (sic) reportedly lost two Dornier Do28s on 12/03/67 and in 05/67. Due to its high aircraft loss rate, BOA was fully integrated into the CASI by mid-1967 and ceased to officially exist.

Incidents

* November 1964, a

Bell 47 The Bell 47 is a single-rotor single-engine light helicopter manufactured by Bell Helicopter. It was based on the third Bell 30 prototype, which was the company's first helicopter designed by Arthur M. Young. The 47 became the first he ...

G-3B-1 Sioux helicopter crashed on its first mission. * December 1965, a

C-47 The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (Royal Air Force, RAF, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, RCAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force, RNZAF, and South African Air Force, SAAF designation) is a airlift, military transport ai ...

crashed after takeoff from Vientiane. * April 1966, a C-47 disappeared while dropping supplies near Ban Song, a town in Surat Thani Province, Thailand. * In 1967, a Do-28 flown by a CASI pilot, C.V. Stone crashed into a hangar on take-off. * May 1967, a Dornier Do-28s was lost in a heavy rainstorm near Mahaxay, Laos, while dropping supplies.http://www.air-america.net/boun-hist.htm

Aircraft

* Beech Tradewind x 1 *

G-3B-1 x 1 *

Dornier Do 28 The type designation Dornier Do 28 comprises two different twin-engine STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by Dornier Flugzeugbau GmbH. Most of them served with the German Air Force and '' Marineflieger'' and other air forces around the world in ...

x 2 *

Douglas C-47 The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF, RAAF, RCAF, RNZAF, and SAAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner. It was used extensively by the Allies during World War II and remained in f ...

s x 2 *

Helio Courier The Helio Courier is a cantilever high-wing light STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949. Around 500 of these aircraft were manufactured in Pittsburg, Kansas, from 1954 until 1974 by the Helio Aircraft Company. The design featured four lead ...

x 1 *

Piper PA-18 The Piper PA-18 Super Cub is a two-seat, single-engine monoplane. Introduced in 1949 by Piper Aircraft, it was developed from the PA-11 Cub Special, and traces its lineage back through the J-3 Cub to the Taylor E-2 Cub of the 1930s. In close ...

Super Cubs x 2

References

External links

BOA at Air-America.net
{{helicopter airlines Defunct airlines of Laos Airlines established in 1965 Airlines disestablished in 1967 Central Intelligence Agency front organizations Defunct helicopter airlines Vietnam War Military history of Laos

History

Incidents

Aircraft

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