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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:22120 RCAF
    Construction Number:10872
    Last Civil Registration:N961S
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 22120 RCAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hawkins Powers Aviation Inc, Greybull, WY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119F-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, Maryland, USA.

    16 April 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 22120 and operated with these markings: PX-120.

    Converted to a C-119G.

    By 1961

    Transferred to Central Experimental and Proving Establishment (CEPE), Uplands, Ottawa.


    Photographer: Unknown

    1967

    To Aircraft International Associates, Omaha NE with new c/r N961S.

    24 March 1976

    To Hawkins Powers Aviation Inc, Greybull, WY keeping c/r N961S.

    From 1977 to 1985

    Stored uncovered at Greybull, WY.

    21 September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: N961S ex RCAF 22120 was being prepared for civilian tanker conversion

    4 February 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX961S (C-119G, 10872) issued.

    20 March 2013

    Civil registration, N961S, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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