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C-82 PACKET/44-23031

Fairchild C-82 Packet

Serial #: 44-23031
Construction #: 10075
Civil Registration:
  N4833V
  N6850A
  Model(s):
  C-82A-20-FA Packet
Name: None
Status: Scrapped
Last info: 1972

History:
Delivered to USAAF as 44-23031.
- BOC: December 2, 1946.
- SOC: July 1954.
Ben W. Widtfeldt & Harry S. McCandless, Council Bluffs, IA, August 23, 1955.
- Registered as N4833V.
M & W Aircraft Leasing, Council Bluffs, IA, September 7, 1954-1955.
Ben W. Widtfeldt, Phoenix, AZ, August, 23, 1955-1959.
- Operated by Skyspray Inc as a fruit fly sprayer, 1956.
Aviation Enterprises, Scottsdale, AZ, March 25, 1959.
- Operated by Wiley Electronics Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1960-1961.
-- Used for oceanic underwater survey flights off Pt Mugu, CA.
-- Modified, rear clamshell doors removed for Doppler radar dish.
H. A. Smith, Richmond, CA, March 30, 1961.
New Frontier Airlift Corp, Phoenix, AZ, March 30, 1961-1969.
- Operated by Biegert Brothers Inc, Phoenix, AZ, 1963.
- Parked Long Beach, CA, 1963 in civil scheme with "Wiley Electronics Co" titles.
- Dismantled at Long Beach, 1965.
- Used in movie The Flight Of The Phoenix in desert forced landing scenes, 1965.
- Reassembled, stored Long Beach, CA, 1967-1969.
Fairchild Hiller Corp, Hagerstown, MD, 1969-1970.
- Registered as N6850A.
- Scrapped, circa 1972.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013.
www.c82packet.com.
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