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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.
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.
1944 model Fairchild 24 Argus III The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum's Fairchild Cornell 314th Troop Carrier Group C-119 Flying Boxcars. During World War II, Fairchild produced PT-19/PT-23/PT-26 (Cornell) and AT-21 Gunner trainers, C-82 Packet transports and drones.
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 ...
The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar presented an obvious choice, having been phased out of front-line service in favor of the C-123 and C-130, and with the stock of available airframes in U.S. Air Force Reserve being sufficient.
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.
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 ...
The Altensteig mid-air collision occurred on 11 August 1955 when two United States Air Force Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcars collided and crashed three miles from Altensteig in West Germany. [1] The aircraft were part of a formation of nine C-119s flying a training mission from Stuttgart-Echterdingen airfield , West Germany with troops from the ...