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Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar The C-82 Packet is a twin-engine, twin-boom cargo aircraft designed and built by Fairchild Aircraft . It was used briefly by the United States Army Air Forces and the successor United States Air Force following World War II.
The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) is an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute.
The C-82 Packet led to the C-119 Flying Boxcar, another U.S. military transport aircraft. The C-119 could carry cargo, personnel, stretcher patients and mechanized equipment with the ability to make "paradrops" of cargo and troops.
The about 1,100 C-119s were built in Hagerstown by Fairchild Aircraft, Bowen said, addressing the crowd from the cargo deck of the Boxcar's predecessor, the C-82 Packet. There were about 300 C-82s ...
Fairchild C-82 Packet; Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar; Fairchild AC-119; Fairchild XC-120 Packplane; Fairchild C-123 Provider; D. Dornier 328; F. Fairchild F-27 ...
It’s a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, a military transport aircraft produced from 1949 to 1955, which he says is “so ugly, it’s cool.” Control tower stay with Northern Lights The cockpit ...
C-119 Flying Boxcar The Fairchild XC-120 Packplane was an American experimental modular aircraft first flown in 1950. It was developed from the company's C-119 Flying Boxcar , and was unique in the unconventional use of removable cargo pods that were attached below the fuselage, instead of possessing an internal cargo compartment.
Fairchild 82 CF-AXC of British Yukon Navigation, on the ice at Mayo Dominion Skyways Fairchild 82. The Fairchild 82 was a rugged aircraft and it found a niche as a freighter especially in northern Canada, although export versions were used for a variety of roles including surveying and light transport.