Just imagine Boxcars with T56's.

I remember these and many other types at Andrews AFB, in the late 50s-early 60s. Before the Air Force went all jet. Really enjoyed those days as a kid. Thanks for posting

The plane is still flyable, and they don't even use it.

Went to LRAFB yesterday and saw one of these on static display. Was just wondering about it. Ex awacs.

Wiki says the Boxcar used R-4360s but the engines on this airplane look like Wright R-3350s

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Wonderful to see these birds being preserved! Hope you folks can be honored for this achievement. Very impressive work.

I can't believe this is airworthy

Can it still fly ? - I'm guessing probably not.

Esse é o avião do filme, O VOO DA PHENIX !

The flying Boxcar, there were also stationt here in Koksijde in Belgium many years ago.

Definitely going to be The Flight of The Pheonix!

One of the first planes I learned to identify as a small boy living near Tinker AFB in OKC

Wow that's some massive Main Gear.

i got to do a little work on one that belonged to everts air fuel in fairbanks... ours had a gas turbine engine on top. that was back in the early 90s. we had c-46s, dc-6s, caribou, lance, p-140, and an old Curtis robin(?) on floats. i liked working there but the pay was so low i lived in a canvass wall tent on the tanana river nearer to north pole and was starving to death. my camp was next to the midnight sun remote control flying field. those were hard days.

This is my friends boxcar, ive been lucky enough to start it up, it used to be a workhorse here in alaska but various people worked hard to put a stop to it through an act of congress. If i ever win the lottery im gonna pay johnny to let me get my type rating in it.

Would it have killed you to have a few shots of the inside????

Thar's gold in them thar hills!

Beautiful bird.. packet aircraft..

I had a ride in one of these when I was in the Air Cadets when I was about 13 years old.

As a kid I saw these flying operationally out of CFB Trenton ON Canada in the late 50s & very early 60s. I remember the excitement when they were replaced by Hercs.

My late Father-in-Law was a crew chief on the 119 during the Korean War. He had a lot of memories, some good but others not so.

Made my first five jump school jumps from these at Ft. BRAGG in 1961. Ride down to Panama and back in one in 1962. Great airplane!

I use watch these birds fly out PDX when I was a young g lad

engine type?

First plane ride I ever had, my dad was in the air force and got us a hop on the plane.

"I flew the best soldiers in the army long before I idolized the sunflower aircraft" - A remark from C119

There used to be a yellow one piloted by Cpt. Baloo from squadron Tailspin. One hell of a pilot, flew it like a fighter jet to deliver his cargo. They sure don't make them like they used to.😋

I'll keep telling my dad's indiscretion of youth story about these planes since he can't. He's 82nd Airborne just before Vietnam was a thing. He and another paratrooper are in the back of one of these having just dropped cargo somewhere, so the back end is off. They decide that sitting on back with legs dangling out of the plane is good fun. Plane banks and they roll to the other side of the plane. He didn't admit to soiling himself but I bet one or both of them did at least a little.

I remember seeing one in NhaTrang belonging to “AirAmerica”. 1971

Had a ride in one from Bethel to Anchorage in Alaska.

Seeing this 119 revived a couple of memories for me. As an "Instrument tech." I only worked one job on the 119 - that was to remove and replace a Torque Oil Pressure transmitter. The sensor was mounted on the nose case of the engine (I think it was a P&W R4360). There were beaucoup Adel clamps from the nose case back to the transmitter mounted on the fire wall. And, I made one free fall parachute jump (a fun jump with about 20 other guys) from a 119, over Hondo, Texas. We took off from Kelly AFB, San Antonio with the "clam shell doors removed. I still have an 8x10 pix of the exit. We got out of the airplane at 8,500 feet. Was a FF of just over 30 seconds. Thanks. MSgt. USAF Ret. PCA/USPA B-6370.

We had a C119 that had been converted into a fire bomber come through the Redding air tanker base one summer when I worked there. It had the dorsal jet engine on top. It was lost later that season when the wings separated from the fuselage, which later led to the USFS airtanker trade-in scandal involving Ronald Reagan's cousin.

I thing the one in the background was abandoned/stranded for years at Port Lions on Kodiak. It had a jet engine on top of the fuselage.

I was stationed 1954 Ashiya air base Japan troop carrier sq. During Korean War they brought back body to Ashiya,

The reason the prop turns so much before engine start ( count 20 blades ) before ignition on is to insure the engine is not hydro-locked. After flying B47s with SAC on active duty I joined the Calif AirGuard at Hayward. They flew C119C ( R 4360 engine ) in an Air Commando squadron. Good flying aircraft and a great X wind airplane. One flight was to pick up a Curtis Jenney in Iowa and fly it to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. After landing we had to wait until it got dark and cooled off enough for the density altitude allowed us to safely take off and fly back to Hayward. The only time I lost an engine was flying out of Hayward with my older brother, active duty 82nd AB paratrooper on board just for a ride. We landed straight ahead into Oakland and my brother got off, called his wife to get a ride home and NEVER rode with me again. Pete

Old can.

Flight of the phoenix?

I was stationed at Rosey Rhodes, back in 69, when they called in all the boxcars from the Caribbean area, into retirement. They came for days! Every runway and every taxiway was lined with them and there may have been more I didn't see. It was amazing! I had no idea there were so many of them and in just this one area. I grew up seeing them in news reels and movies and on TV. It was kind of sad, but they were pretty tired by that time. I think a bunch went on to serve in south America but most went to the scrap yard. I was seeing history unfolding.

Looks like a old Air America mule

Sounds like you need a GPU with a little more current capability or at least HP.

I always wanted to fly one. Fantastic airplane. Awesome video.

Has it been sold and preparing to be ferried somewhere?

Hi, I was flight engineer on the C119 for 4 years back in the 50"s and 60's. I never had a flight problem with this bird. I guess I was very lucky!!!

Cortaste el video, en la mejor parte que es cuando arranca.

I grew up with Boxcars. I've always had a special glow around them. Great aircraft and fun to fly.

Wow,I thought these were all in the scrapyard long ago. Seeing one airworthy is wonderful,and another right next to it on the ramp……fantastic!

My dad flew the AC-119 version out of Lachburn AFB all the way to Phang Rang VN in '69 to '70.

Anyone else see the Boxcar in the background at the 4 minute mark? The one with the JATO on top?

I was a loadmaster on the C119. We called it the flying coffin. We lost an engine about 100 miles from the base. The aircraft was losing altitude fast. We barely made it back. We were at 50 feet when we were a mile out. The interesting part was that we were empty at the time. The engines were turbocompounded 3350's.