Fairchild C-119G ‘Flying Boxcar’

The fair child C-119 was larger and more powerful version of the Fairchild C-82 ‘Packet’. It was designed to air-drop paratroops and large cargo. It features rear clamshell doors along with a monorail system for the delivery of items throughout the cargo compartment. Pratt & Whitney R-4360 engines powered initial versions while later versions use the right R-3350-85 turbo-compound engine, with gross weight increased to 85,000 lbs. A total of 1,185 C-119s were built with the most produced versions being the C-119G. C-119s served principally with Troop Carrier Command Wings seeing service in Korea with the 314th Air Division. Several aircraft were modified in 1960 to use ‘snatch’ techniques for mid air recovery of space capsules during their descent from orbit during the Vietnam war, some C-119's were converted with ‘gun-ships’ (AC-119) and equipped with two 20 mm rotary barrel cannons in gun pods.

RCAF Serial Number 22114 is a C-119G bilt bu Fairchild Aircraft at Hagerstown, Maryland and delivered to the royal Canadian Air Force air transport command on March 18, 1953. It served with various units including number 436 squadron at Downsview, and later Uplands, Ontario. It was flown to the RCAF storage area at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on June 28, 1965.; and sold to a private firm in the United States on February 1, 1967. The aircraft was flown to the museum from gray bowl Wyoming on October 24, 1988 after service as a fire bomber it is currently painted in USAF markings.