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Trans World Airlines Jet-Packet 1600, with Westinghouse J30-W turbojet booster engine in pod above upper fuselage (1959) M22 Locust light tank being loaded into C-82 C-82A Packet freighter of Cruzeiro (Brasil) at Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro, in May 1972 Packet of Taxpa Airlines (Chile) in 1972 C-82 Packet dropping U.S. Air Force paratroops in training exercise Three C-82s and various ...
The company had intended to enter the postwar civilian market with an upgraded Model 82 but the original tooling had been destroyed during the war years. The remaining Fairchild 82s remained in service until the late 1960s. [4] A 40-year-old mystery of the Arctic was solved when the remains of a Fairchild 82 were found south of Bathurst Inlet ...
The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) is an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute.
Fairchild C-82 Packet: 1944: 223: Military transport Fairchild M-84: 1945: 1: Four-Five place family aircraft Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar: 1947: 1,183: Military transport Fairchild XNQ: 1949: 2: Trainer Fairchild C-123 Provider: 1949: 307: Military transport Fairchild XC-120 Packplane: 1950: 1: Military transport Fairchild Hiller F-27, FH-227 ...
C-82 Packet. In 1942, Fairchild developed the Fairchild Model 78, which was designed specifically for military transport. [4] He was awarded a military contract to build his large-capacity twin-boom plane, which featured a hinged rear door used to load bulky cargo to be designated the C-82 Packet. [4]
The museum purchased a C-123 and trucked it to the airport in 2019. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] After originally considering building a new hangar, the museum moved to the former Fairchild Aircraft Flight Test Hangar in 2020 and purchased the building three years later.
C-82s of the 316th Troop Carrier Group. Shortly after the 435th Troop Carrier Group was inactivated, the squadron was moved to Lawson Field, Georgia, where it became part of the 316th Troop Carrier Group. [1] The squadron initially operated Curtiss C-46 Commandos with the 316th. By 1947 it had converted to Fairchild C-82 Packet transports. With ...
"Fairchild C-82 Packet/C-119 Flying Boxcar" by Alwyn T Lloyd (Aerofax Publications) ISBN 1857802012. Mr. Lloyd's production #'s for the various models are wildly inaccurate, but apart from that it's still the definitive reference book on the C-82 and C-119 (as well as the R4Q-1 and R4Q-2). - Ken keisel 18:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)