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    Airframe Family: Boeing B307 Stratoliner
    Latest Model:SA-307B-1
    Last Military Serial:42-88623 USAAF
    Construction Number:1998
    Last Civil Registration:XW-TFP
    Compressed ID:Boeing SA-307B-1 sn 42-88623 USAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Lao

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SA-307B-1.

    To The Boeing Company with new c/r NX19906.

    8 July 1940

    To TWA Transcontinental and Western Air with new c/r NX1940.

    To unknown owner with c/r N1940.

    February 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-88623 as a C-75 and operated with these markings: Comanche.


    Photographer: Unknown

    July 1944

    To Trans World Airlines Inc, Kansas City, MO with new c/r N1940.

    Redesignated as SA-307B-1.

    11 July 1951

    Civil registration, N1940, cancelled.
    Exported to France.

    12 July 1951

    Civil registration, N1940, cancelled.
    Exported to France.

    Circa August 1951

    To Aigle Azur with new c/r F-BELU.
    Based in French Indonesia.

    June 1967


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: F-BELU, at Paya Lebur, in June 1967

    1974

    To Cambodia Air Commercial with new c/r XW-TFP.

    1974

    To Royal Air Lao keeping c/r XW-TFP.

    11 March 1975


    Photographer: Christian Volpati

    13 March 1975

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. The cargo flight departed Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport (HKG/VHHH), Hong Kong and was destined for Vientiane-Wattay Airport (VTE/VLVT), Laos. Narrative: An aircraft was reported missing on this date while on a flight from Hong Kong to Vientiane. MacAlan Thompson reported that a Stratoliner was forced to carry out a controlled crash-landing in a river. Captain Jimmy Lieu and the copilot were held prisoner by the communist Pathet Lao for several months then released about May 1975...
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.
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