Wednesday, October 29, 2014

N818NA Lockheed YO-3A

Occasionally, some extraordinary aircraft are being auctioned by the US government, and N818NA is one of them. Eleven YO-3As were built in total, to observe Vietnamese army movements silently at or below 1000ft. NASA acquired 69-18010 in 1977 for rotorcraft research, and now it is available to the public. No doubt an excellent museum piece, although two were once used for catching poachers "when other methods failed".

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