Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar Specifications Technical Data / Description

Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar history segment from the documentary, "Hagerstown-Remembering Our Aviation History" www.HagerstownAviationMuseum.org
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Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar. ( Variants/Other Names: See History below) Fairchild C-119 "Jet-Pack" version, N5216R, operated by. Hawkins and Powers Aviation, Greybull, Wyoming, USA. (Photo source unknown. Please contact us if you deserve credit.) History: The C-119 was a redesign of an earlier Fairchild transport design, the C-82 Packet.
Interesting facts about Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar

The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was a twin-boom twin-tail military transport plane designed and developed by Fairchild Aircraft. It was designed to carry troops and cargo for military missions and exercises, and performed its first flight in November 1947, according to the National Museum of the USAF.. Addressing the flaws of the Fairchild C-82 Packet, the C-119 featured a robust airframe.
Interesting facts about Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar

In 1947 Fairchild-Hiller picked-up the design and began to produce the aircraft, in a slightly modified form, for the new United States Air Force. With changes in the location of the flight deck, widening of the fuselage and wings and increasing the capacity to 28,000lbs the C-119 Flying Boxcar was born.
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Satellite CatcherThis C-119J Flying Boxcar made the world's first mid-air recovery of an object returning from space. In August 1960, it caught the Discoverer XIV satellite using recovery gear lowered from the open rear door. This mechanism snagged the,
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Satellite Catcher. This C-119J Flying Boxcar made the world's first mid-air recovery of an object returning from space. In August 1960, it caught the Discoverer XIV satellite using recovery gear lowered from the open rear door. This mechanism snagged the satellite's parachute, and a winch slowly reeled the film capsule into the aircraft.
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The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was a military transport aircraft designed to carry cargo, merchandise, and troops. Its design was derived from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, a World War II-era transport aircraft. The aircraft performed its first flight in November 1947 and entered service in December 1949. More than 1,180 examples of the C-119.
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The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was a military transport aircraft developed from the Second World War era Fairchild C-82 Packet. It was designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute. The first C-119 made its initial flight in November 1947, and by the time production.
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PRODUCTION. The Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar was produced at the Fairchild aircraft plant in Hagerstown, MD. Some C119s were built by the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. in Willow Run, MI starting in 1951. The aircraft was in production from 1949-1955. 1,112 C119s were built by Fairchild, and 71 by Kaiser. 45 aircraft were built for the RCAF.
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This Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (N15501) was used in the Flight of the Phoenix (2004) movie and is now stored in the Arizona desert west of Phoenix - Octo.
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The Fairchild C-119, nicknamed "Flying boxcar" for its simple and capacious interior, has entered the history of aviation as one of the most versatile transport aircraft. Employed in a broad range of roles from airdropping personnel and equipment in Korea to catching films dropped from spy satellites in the middle of the Pacific, this.
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One such aircraft that has made a substantial impact, albeit in a more discreet fashion, is the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar. In operation from the late 1940s to the 1970s, this robust transport aircraft, with its characteristic box-like fuselage, served as a crucial backbone of the United States Air Force's (USAF) logistics and airlift.
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Fairchild Corporation produced a winner in the post-war world with the introduction of the C-119 "Flying Boxcar". The Boxcar was derived from the C-82 "Packet" transport - looking ever more like the identical to the final C-119 production models - though the C-119 took several things further and would eventually earn its own designation, and an identifiable nickname that embodied the design.
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The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) was 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 C119J Flying Boxcar
C-119G "Flying Boxcar". The C-119 design began in 1941 as the XC-82 Packet. It was first flown on November 17, 1947, at Fairchild Aviation Company's Hagerstown, Maryland, plant. The XC-82 was the first American aircraft designed during World War II specifically for a fast, mobile, cargo-carrying function.
Interesting facts about Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar

Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar is a type of transport aircraft used by the American military which was developed during World War II. This was designed for carrying cargo, patients, personnel, and even mechanized equipment. This aircraft was also used to drop troops and cargo by using a parachute.
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