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In September 1951, the Royal Lao Government, then headed by Phoui Sananikone and the US signed an economic assistance agreement. That agreement became the basis for American aid to Laos. In late 1960, the CIA created yet another airline in Laos. Named Veha Akhat Airlines is was putatively owned by the Sananikone family. Consisting of 26 Taiwanese crewman and probably not more than three aircraft, it would have a short life.1
Veha Akhat suffered its first loss on December 23, 1960, a deHavilland DH-84 Dragon crashing near Ban Ban, Laos. Its next crash was a DC-3 shot down by Pathet Lao forces while dropping supplies near Padong, Laos. One of the four Chinese crew survived. The airline was dissolved shortly after this incident. The remaining aircraft, a Taiwanese-registered C-46 is assumed to have been transferred back to one of the other CIA airlines.
No information on insignia, uniforms or aircraft markings for Veha Akhat has been found.
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