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C-119 FLYING BOXCAR/53-3144
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar
Serial #: 53-3144
Construction #: 11155
Civil Registration:
  N8512N
  N37484
Location:
  30°24'54.1"N 86°42'03.2"W
Model(s):
  C-119G Flying Boxcar
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2019
History:
Delivered to United States Air Force as 53-3144.
  • BOC: April 23, 1954.
  • Transferred to MASDC, January 28, 1971.
  • Converted to C-119L, 1973.
Private Owner, ????.
  • Registered as N8512N.
Private Owner, ????.
  • Registered as N37484.
Used for awhile as a sprayer, spraying for grasshoppers.
Used to deliver contraband televisions from Texas to Mexico.
Damaged in Mexico after striking a cactus, returned to Laredo, Texas.

Air Commando Park, Hurlburt Field, FL, 1987-2019.
  • Displayed as AC-119G.
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