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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119F Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:131706 USN
    Construction Number:10891
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119F sn 131706 USN cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119F.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131706.

    By March 1975

    Transferred to VMR-234, NAS Glenview, IL.
    Operated with markings: QH-706

    15 March 1975


    Photographer: Lindell H. Reynolds

    6 June 1975

    Ferry flight.
    Flown from NAS Glenview to Davis Monthan AFB with a flight time of 8.6 hrs.

    From Unknown to 25 June 1980

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 4C028.

    25 June 1980

    To South Western Alloys.

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Only the fuselage section survives here.
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    July 1994


    Photographer: Han de Ridder

    Report by Han de Ridder: This airframe was meant to be transported to Namibia for the re-make of the film Flight of the Phoenix (2004, starring Dennis Quaid), but it was not needed eventually and it remained on the premises of National/Southwest Alloys.

    19 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken in AMI Yard, Tucson, AZ, USA
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Han de Ridder
    Max Sabin
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