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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.
A Fairchild C-82A-FA Packet, 45-57739, c/n 10109, of the 375th Troop Carrier Wing (Medium), [67] en route from Maxwell AFB, Alabama, and due to land at Greenville AFB, South Carolina, at 2230 hrs., crashes near Pickens, South Carolina, ~40 miles (64 km) W of the destination, shortly after 2200 hrs. this date. [68]
Fairchild C-82A Packet, N53228, indoor studio wreck Fairchild R4Q-1 Packet, BuNo. 126589, [ 2 ] non-flying Phoenix prop Although Frank Tallman had flown the Phoenix P-1 for the first aerial shots on July 7, 1965, he injured his leg in a freak go-kart accident with his young son and was hospitalized.