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FLYING BOXCAR/51-2700



Serial #: 51-2700
Construction #: 10689
Civil Registration:
  G-BLSW
  N2700
Location: N/A
  Model(s):
  C-119F-FA Flying Boxcar
  C-119G Flying Boxcar
Name: None
Status: Unknown
Last info: 2015

History:
Delivered to United States Air Force as 51-2700, 19??.
Transferred to Belgian AF as CP9/OT-CAI, October 28, 1952.
- Returned to USAF, September 12, 1955.
- Purchased by Belgian government, May 21, 1959.
- Converted to C-119G by Sabena between 1955 and and 1957.
Transferred to Spanish AF as T.9-5, 1956.
- Not accepted, returned to USAF at Chateauroux, France, 1956.
- Moved to Brussels for storage.
Transferred to Belgian AF as CP9/OT-CAI.
- BOC: May 20, 1959.
- SOC: January 1975.
Bat International, Equatorial Guinea, 1981.
- As 3c-ABA.
Aces High, Manston, UK, December 28, 1984.
- Registered as G-BLSW.
Consolidated Aviation Enterprises, October 1985.
- Registered as N2700.
- Flown to North Weald, UK, March 1987.
- Broken up.
- Registration cancelled April 18, 1991.
Wings Museum, Redhill Aerodrome, England, 2007-2015.
- Cockpit section only.

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