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The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, nicknamed "Old Shaky", is an American heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.. The C-124 was the primary heavy-lift transport for United States Air Force (USAF) Military Air Transport Service (MATS) during the 1950s and early 1960s, until the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter entered service.
Philippine Airlines Flight 124 was a domestic flight operated by Philippine Airlines that departed from Zamboanga International Airport, Zamboanga City to Manila International Airport, Manila. On July 21, 1989, the aircraft skidded and overran Manila's Runway 06, losing its undercarriage and ran onto a motorway, striking vehicles and killing ...
The Fairchild C-123 Provider is an American military transport aircraft designed by Chase Aircraft and built by Fairchild Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force.In addition to its USAF service, which included later service with the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard, it went on to serve the U.S. Coast Guard and various air forces in Southeast Asia.
The National Museum of the United States Air Force scrapped the last vestige of Air Force Globemasters when they relegated the YC-124C, 48-795 (the prototype of the Globemaster II which had been converted from C-74, 42-65406) to fire-fighting training in 1969. [6] 42-65404 was sold on the civilian market as N3182G.
20th Operations Squadron (C-118, C-124) 1968-1971; 374th Tactical Airlift Wing (C-130) 15 November 1973 – 30 June 1989 20th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron (C-9) 21st Tactical Airlift Squadron (C-130E) 776th Tactical Airlift Squadron (C-130E) (closed 1975) 624th Airlift Wing/624th Tactical Airlift Wing (C-130) 1 July 1989 – 19 December 1991
The Tachikawa air disaster (Japanese: 立川基地グローブマスター機墜落事故, Hepburn: Tachikawa kichi Gurōbumasutā-ki tsuiraku jiko) occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, 1953, when a United States Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed three minutes after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board.
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The 1952 Moses Lake C-124 crash was an accident in which a United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II military transport aircraft crashed near Moses Lake, Washington on December 20, 1952. Of the 115 people on board, 87 died and 28 survived.