That would be the C-119 Flying Boxcar, which was developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport that was designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients ...

Volunteers work on the restoration of a C-119 'Flying Boxcar' at Columbus Municipal Airport. Photo provided Submitted photo Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum volunteers are continuing to make progress on a ...

This collection consists of six black and white 8 by 10 inch Fairchild press photographs and two corresponding press releases relating to the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar. The Fairchild C-119 Flying ...

Volunteers bolt the wing to the fuselage of the C-119 Flying Boxcar at the Columbus Municipal Airport. Photo provided Submitted photo Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum volunteers have finished installing ...

Here’a What You Need to Remember: Among its most important airlift mission of the war was in the bitterly cold winter of 1950 when C-119Bs were used to air-drop bridge sections to U.S. troops trapped ...

The final pieces of a C-119 'œFlying Boxcar'ť aircraft purchased by the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum have made it to Columbus, the culmination of months of planning and several trips to Wyoming to ...

When New Hampshire’s sharp-tongued Senator Styles Bridges charged last November that the Air Force was paying Kaiser-Frazer $1.2 million apiece for the same C-119 Flying Boxcar that Fairchild Engine ...

The Hagerstown Flying Boxcars are a little bit closer to taking off. During a ceremony Wednesday night at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, from the open rear clamshell doors of a cargo plane, Downtown ...