COSARA (Comptoirs Saigonnais de Ravitaillements) was a Vietnamese aviation and transport company founded by Maurice Loubière. The company’s office was located at 5–13, Turc Street, Saigon - now Hô Huân Nghiêp, Ho Chi Minh City.
Loubière was posted to the French 4th Colonial Artillery Regiment, based in Hanoi in 1929, to undertake his military service. Once there he learnt Vietnamese and became the Regiment’s interpreter. In September 1942, he started his own business, Les Comptoirs des Industries Locales, which provided provisions for the Army. Indo-China was controlled by the French Vichy government at this time although occupied by the Japanese.
0n 9 September 1947 Loubière, along with one of his Vietnamese friends, founded COSARA (Comptoirs Saigonnais de Ravitaillements). The company’s aim was to air freight supplies to army units scattered around Vietnam by using the airfields built by the Japanese during World War II.
In September 1947 COSARA leased an Amiot AAC.1 Toucan from STA (Société Transatlantique Aérienne). The company was also granted the right to carry passengers between Saigon and Sóc Trăng, Phnom-Penh, and Laos. A second AAC.1 was leased from STA that same year. STA also became a shareholder in COSARA. During the same period COSARA also ran a trucking business to carry supplies from the airports to there destinations. In 1948 COSARA added three Swissair Douglas C-47’s to its fleet.
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