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Grawburg

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  1. Ok made it there today. Took the Red Line up and tried walking along the service road to the plane, but the police turned me away at the road checkpoint. Tried walking around through a construction site and made it across the street from the plane, but couldn't get over to it. So walked back to the main road and found a moto driver who drove along the road, through the checkpoint, and up to the plane. He agreed to wait 5 minutes, but when I pulled out my phone to take photos he started panicking. He was talking so fast I couldn't understand him and my Thai isn't good enough to explain that it's ok - although I guess it wasn't ok. Fearing he would bolt, I took a few more pics and he took me back - 70 THB for the trip which was fair since maybe I could have gotten him in trouble. But I got my pics! ????
  2. Fantastic!!!! Ok, I get into town June 15th and I'll head out there June 16th.???? Thanks so much for checking! The new BTS line or Airport Link doesn't go to out to Don Mueang yet does it?
  3. Oh man if you could confirm it's still there I'd be so grateful. I'll really be disappointed if it's been hauled off. I lived in BKK for a few years, then in Phnom Penh where I developed a weird interest in the Khmer Rouge period. I'm now in Hong Kong and COVID restrictions have kept me away from both places for +2 years. I've finally got a return trip to both BKK and PP in June with a list of Khmer Rouge era things to see - including that plane. The plane was Air Cambodge's only Carvelle jet and took Lon Nol from PP to Utapao days before the Khmer Rouge entered the city in 1975. Somehow it made it from Utapao to DMK and (hopefully) remains there. There were some old DC-3's around DMK (so I've heard) that were part of the transport services that sprang up in the final year of the Khmer Republic. But I can't seem to find the website detailing where they are.
  4. It's still there....Can you get a taxi to it or did you have to walk from a main road? This plane was the jet that Lon Nol flew on when he was evacuated from Phnom Penh a few days before the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975.
  5. Hello. The link below is a photo of an Air Cambodge plane sitting on the edge of DMK. It's not on the museum grounds, but looking at google maps I can't figure how to get around to it without getting onto airport property. Anyone gotten up to the plane? https://www.planespotters.net/photo/735567/xu-jtb-royal-air-cambodge-sud-aviation-se-210-caravelle-iii
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