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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 ...
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]
Fairchild 82 CF-AXC of British Yukon Navigation, on the ice at Mayo Dominion Skyways Fairchild 82. The Fairchild 82 was a rugged aircraft and it found a niche as a freighter especially in northern Canada, although export versions were used for a variety of roles including surveying and light transport.
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 ...
Mantz was killed in 1965 while flying a cobbled-together aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1, designed with the assistance of Otto Timm, representing the fictional type built by oil explorers of pieces of their crashed Fairchild C-82 Packet downed in the North African desert in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).
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.
Benny Howard was dispatched to Douglas to oversee the installation of the new engine. His career at Douglas continued for many years, including piloting the initial tests of the DC-4E, A-26 Invader, DC-6, and Fairchild C-82 Packet aircraft. [6] He also served as test pilot on the Budd RB-1 Conestoga and other aircraft.
Fairchild C-82 Packet, 1949–1950; Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, 1949–1950; Chase C-122 Avitruc, 1955–1956; Fairchild C-123 Provider, 1955–1958; Awards and ...