O-1 Bird Dog Initial History and Specifications. Manufactured by Cessna, one of the most enduringly popular brands in general aviation aircraft production—now a Textron subsidiary and ...

O-1E Bird Dog Operational Performance. During its wartime debut in Korea, the O-1 was known as the L-19 in the Army and the OE in the USMC; the O-1 designation didn’t come along until 1962 ...

Bird Dog pilots flew fixed-wing aircraft -- the Cessna L-19s and O-1s -- from 1950 to 1974 during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and unlike today's Aviators, ...

On April 29, 1975, South Vietnamese Air Force Major Bung-Ly made the decision to load his family -- his wife and five children -- into a small two-seat Cessna O-1 Bird Dog airplane. Bung-Ly took ...