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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 ...
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.
1944 model Fairchild 24 Argus III The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum's Fairchild Cornell 314th Troop Carrier Group C-119 Flying Boxcars. During World War II, Fairchild produced PT-19/PT-23/PT-26 (Cornell) and AT-21 Gunner trainers, C-82 Packet transports and drones.
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 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.
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.
Fairchild C-82 Packet; Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar; Fairchild AC-119; Fairchild XC-120 Packplane; Fairchild C-123 Provider; D. Dornier 328; F. Fairchild F-27 ...
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).