Invited guests attend a dedication for the eassembled and restored C-119 “Flying Boxcar" which will be open to the public on Saturday during an open house. Photo by Jana Wiersema, The Republic ...

On August 18, 1960, a Fairchild C-119J Flying Boxcar achieved a historic milestone by performing the first midair recovery of a space capsule returning from orbit. Operated by the United States Air ...

This collection consists of six black and white 8 by 10 inch Fairchild press photographs and two corresponding press releases relating to the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar. The Fairchild C-119 Flying ...

The U.S. Army’s 499th Combat Engineer Battalion boarded nine C-119 Flying Boxcars at an air base near Stuttgart one afternoon last week. Their mission was to become familiar with the problems and ...

The Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum at the Columbus Municipal Airport will have its C-119 “Flying Boxcar” open to the public for ...

Here’a What You Need to Remember: Among its most important airlift mission of the war was in the bitterly cold winter of 1950 when C-119Bs were used to air-drop bridge sections... The United States ...

Revista Aérea Collection Collection, Acc. 2003-0028, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should ...