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C-119 FLYING BOXCAR/51-2687
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar
Serial #: 51-2687
Construction #: 10676
Civil Registration:
  N15505
Location:
  36°39'53.8"N 87°28'48.4"W
Model(s):
  C-119F-FA Flying Boxcar
  C-119G Flying Boxcar
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2019
History:
Constructed as a C-119F-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, MD, circa 1952.
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 51-2687, 1952.
Delivered to Royal Canadian Air Force as 22101.
  • BOC: September 8, 1952
  • SOC: May 9, 1967
  • Converted to a C-119G, 1954.
  • Assigned to 435 Squadron.
  • Transferred to 436 Squadron.
  • Transferred to Crown Assets Disposal Corporation.
Aircraft International Associates, Omaha NE, May 1971.
  • Registered as N15505.
  • Stored at Lincoln, NE.
Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY, 1976.
Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum, Fort Campbell, Clarksville, TN, September 1995.
  • Obtained for use in the restoration of USN BuNo 131679.
Private Owner, Washington, DC, April 10, 1998.
Private Owner, Washington, DC, August 7, 2013.
Displayed at Campbell AAF/Sabre AAP, Hopkinsville, KY, ????-2019
Photo Source(s):
Glenn Chatfield

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