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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119C Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:51-8259 USAF
    Construction Number:10807
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119C sn 51-8259 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119C.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-8259.

    By August 1954

    To 12th Troop Carrier Squadron, 60th Troop Carrier Group, 12th AF, Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany.

    10 August 1954

    Damaged.
    Damaged 15mi NE of Bordeaux, France. Pilot at time of incident was a Harold W. Cooley.

    By January 1968

    Transferred to 129th SOS, 129th SOG, California ANG, Hayward Municipal Airport, CA.
    Operated with markings: CALIF, U.S. AIR FORCE, 0-18259

    Circa July 1968


    Photographer: Ken Buchanan Collection

    6 February 1969

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    14 February 1969

    Declared surplus.
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