The museum's C-119G Flying Boxcar, RCAF 22118, is on display at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware.
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This walk around takes you inside for a look at the cockpit of the Boxcar.
This boxcar is a G, the last major production model, powered with Wright R-3350 engines. Four hundred eighty-four were built.
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It was used by the Royal Canadian Air Force, as a fire bomber by Hawkins & Powers Aviation, and in the Richard Dreyfuss movie Always.
The C-119 Flying Boxcar, developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, was a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute (utilizing its “clamshell” cargo doors at the rear of the cabin).
The first C-119 made its maiden flight in November 1947 and by the time production ceased in 1955, more than 1,150 C-119s had been built.
The USAF used the airplane extensively during the Korean Conflict as a transport.
In South Vietnam, the airplane once again entered combat, this time in the ground support role as the AC-119G “Shadow” and AC-119K “Stinger” gunships mounting side-firing weapons capable of unleashing up to 6,000 rounds per minute per gun.
When acting as a transport, the C-119 could carry up to 62 fully equipped troops or a 30,000 pound cargo load.
Perhaps the Boxcar’s most notable feat happened when it made the world’s first mid-air recovery of a capsule returning from outer space. This occurred southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, on 19 August 1960 when it snagged the chute attached to the Discovery XIV satellite at an altitude of 8,000 feet.
Assignment History:
*15 Apr 1953 Transferred to Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
*16 Apr 1953 to 436 Squadron, Air Transport Command (ATC), RCAF Dorval, Montreal, Quebec
*Dec 1955 to 4 Operation Training Unit, RCAF Dorval, Montreal, Quebec
*22 Nov 1956 to 114 Communications FLight, Capodichino, Italy (United Nations Forces in Egypt); flew shuttle flights between Capodichino and Abu Sueir, Egypt, during Suez Crisis
*Apr 1957 to 10 Technical Services Detachment, Edmonton, Alberta (received AN/APS-42 radar in an enlarged nose); returned to 114th Communications Flight after modifications completed
*Apr 1958 Transferred to 436 Squadron, Air Transport Command, RCAF Downsview, Ottawa, Ontario
*Oct 1962 to Central Experimental and Proving Establishment, RCAF Downsview, Ottawa, Ontario
*25 Aug 1965 transferred to the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation (CADC) for storage and sale
*1969 Sold to Hawkins & Powers, Greybull, WY, registered N3559 (Hawkins & Power A/C #137) and converted to aerial tanker for firefighting
*20 Mar 1972 Steward-Davis Jet-Pak 3402 (Westinghouse J-34 jet engine) installed above fuselage
*Oct 1991 Flown to Air Mobility Command Museum (then Dover AFB Museum), Dover AFB, Delaware
*Summer 2004 Restoration began
SPECIFICATIONS
*CREW: Pilot, co-pilot, navigator, flight engineer, loadmaster
*PAYLOAD: 30,000 lbs; or 62 troops; or 35 stretchers
*LENGTH: 86 ft 6 in
*WINGSPAN: 109 ft 3 in
*HEIGHT: 26 ft 6 in
*EMPTY WEIGHT: 40,000 lbs
*LOADED WEIGHT: 64,000 lbs
*POWERPLANT: 2x Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20 OR 2x Wright R-3350-85 Duplex Cyclone radials
*MAXIMUM SPEED: 296 mph
*CRUISE SPEED: 250 mph
*RANGE: 2,280 mi
*SERVICE CEILING: 23,900 ft
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