This C-82A Packet, Serial No. 45-57814, N9701F, is on display at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, located at the Hagerstown Regional Airport, Maryland.
This is one of only 4 surviving C-82s on static display in the United States.
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The aircraft were built at the Fairchild factory in Hagerstown, Maryland, with deliveries beginning in 1945 and ending in September, 1948.
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Developed by Fairchild, the C-82 was intended as a heavy-lift cargo aircraft.
First flown in 1944, the first delivery was not until June 1945 and only a few entered service before the end of World War II.
In the end, only 223 C-82As would be built, a small number for a wartime production cargo aircraft.
Most were used for cargo and troop transport, although a few were used for paratroop operations or towing military gliders.
A redesign of the XC-82B would result in the production of the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar.
The C-82 was retired from the United States Air Force inventory in 1954.
After the C-82A became surplus to United States Air Force requirements, small numbers were sold to civilian operators in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the United States and these were utilized for many years as rugged freight aircraft, capable of carrying bulky items of cargo.
SPECIFICATIONS
*Crew: three
*Capacity: 42 troops or 34 stretchers
*Length: 77 ft 1 in
*Wingspan: 106 ft 51⁄2 in
*Height: 26 ft 4 in
*Wing area: 1,400 sq ft
*Empty weight: 32,500 lb
*Gross weight: 50,000 lb
*Max takeoff weight: 54,000 lb
*Fuel capacity: 2,600 US gal
*Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney R-2800-85 18-cylinder, two-row radial engines, 2,100 hp each
*Propellers: 3-bladed Hamilton Standard Hydromatic, 15 ft 2 in diameter
*Maximum speed: 248 mph at 17,500 ft
*Cruise speed: 218 mph at 10,000 ft
*Stall speed: 85 mph with full flaps
*Range: 3,875 mi
*Service ceiling: 21,200 ft
*Rate of climb: 950 ft/min
*Takeoff distance to 50 ft: 3,300 ft
*Landing distance from 50 ft: 1,875 ft
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