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Description
| Manufacturer: | Fairchild | |
| Base model: | C-119 | |
| Designation: | C-119 | |
| Version: | C | |
| Nickname: | Flying Boxcar | |
| Equivalent to: | R4Q-1 | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1925-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
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Specifications
| Length: | 86' 5" | 26.3 m | |
| Height: | 26' 7" | 8.1 m | |
| Wingspan: | 109' 3" | 33.3 m | |
| Wingarea: | 1,447.0 sq ft | 134.4 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 39,800 lb | 18,049 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 74,000 lb | 33,560 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 2 | ||
| Powerplant: | Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20 | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 3500 | ||
Performance
| Range: | 1,770 miles | 2,850 km | |
| Max Speed: | 281 mph | 452 km/h | 244 kt |
| Climb: | 1,010 ft/min | 307 m/min | |
| Ceiling: | 23,900 ft | 7,284 m | |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Castle Air Museum | Atwater | California |
| Museum of Aviation | Warner Robins AFB | Georgia |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
| Pope AFB | Pope AFB | North Carolina |
| USAF History and Traditions Museum | San Antonio | Texas |
C-119C on display
Castle Air Museum | Museum of Aviation | Pima Air & Space Museum | Pope AFB |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Kenneth Owen Texarkana, TX | My email address is elpca41@windstream.net I witnessed a C-119 Box car crash near the Town of New Boston TExas in June 1951. Does anyone have any information on this event, or where I can find out? The plane may have been coming from Barksdale Afb in Shreveport La heading toward Carswell in Ft Worth Tex. not sure. It was a stormy cloudy day and plane came straight down wing broken back and impacted ground with an expolsion. Killed all aboard, and there were passengers. I think 12 people in all lost their lives. 06/04/2013 @ 02:40 [ref: 67868] |
| Kenneth Owen Texarkana, TX | In June 1951 I Witnessed a C-119 Flying Boxcar Crash near the small Town of New Boston, Texas. The Plane came out of the clouds going straight down and hit the ground and exploded. Of Course there were no survivors, there had been 8 or 9 people on board, I think some were catching a ride to some destination. The Plane was coming from east heading West. I don't know the orgination of the flight or destination. It had been real cloudy and Stormy that day and the plane crashed around 12 noon.Does anyone have any information on this? 05/16/2013 @ 14:31 [ref: 67818] |
| Kenneth Owen Texarkana, TX | In June 1951 I Witnessed a C-119 Flying Boxcar Crash near the small Town of New Boston, Texas. The Plane came out of the clouds going straight down and hit the ground and exploded. Of Course there were no survivors, there had been 8 or 9 people on board, I think some were catching a ride to some destination. The Plane was coming from east heading West. I don't know the orgination of the flight or destination. It had been real cloudy and Stormy that day and the plane crashed around 12 noon.Does anyone have any information on this? 05/16/2013 @ 14:30 [ref: 67817] |
| pablo romero montesino Cáceres, Spain, NJ | Fairchild C-119C-18 Fliying Registration 50-0163 USA
crashed at Cáceres 1954 On Wednesday February 9th., 1954, I was an eighteen years old student of the Merchant Spanish Navy and before go to bed I was sitting at my working table fighting with some problem about sea navigation. Cáceres was covered by a bad fog. About 0130 am I heard an airplane flying over the house two times, the second one too low for a plane crossing as others on the track Madrid-Lisbon. I was sure that they were in trouble, perhaps looking for an emergency landing at Cáceres militar airport, which was closed at night . Early in the morning a local broadcasting radio inform us of the crash at 8 kms from the town . Fortunately the whole crew did jumped from the plane landing safely all of them. The people of Cáceres celebrates the good fortune of the American crew which was invited by the city council with a “spanish wine ceremony” The crew members were: Capt. Guillermo(Williams) Adams 37, Lieutenants Thomas Johnson 27, Jhon Mattheso, Sergeants Clement Seric 22 and Merven Strang 32. The picture show three crew members accompanied by some spanish military authoroties and an American representative of the embassy at Madrid surrounded by the wreckage of the plane crashed at 7 meters (seven meters) from a small house of a family of shepherds sleeping at the moment, no one result injured. I wonder if any member of the crew of that flight C-119C-18 Registration 50-0163 USA has read this comment or is recognized in the photo by somebody. Pablo Romero Montesino (prmespartero@terra.es) Dear friends: Congratulations for your web page. I hope that above history could be of interest for you and your readers. Please let me know if this mail has been received OK and if somebody could identify any of the Americans pilots of that plane. Thank you Greetings from Spain I would like to add, that the plane did departed from Frankfurt (Germany) destination Azores Islands and when they were west of Finisterre (Spanish NW coast) one of the engines gone. Trying to reach Lisbon´s airport they conttinued flying south over the Portuguese coast, but the foggy weather and the lost of altitude they changed the course in order to avoid any mountain going east looking for Caceres airport. When they arrive to Cáceres the heavy fog and the lack of gasoline determinated the jumping order . Regards Pablo 12/29/2009 @ 10:39 [ref: 25485] |
| Roger Wyckoff , PA | Possibly your last chance to see a flying C-119C Flying Boxcar.
Hagerstown Aviation Museum in Hagerstown, MD has received a donation of a 1953 Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar. They plan to fly it to Hagerstown in October. Check their website for any changes, or additional info. It was with the Canadian Air Force and has a jet pack attached. It also has a civilian reg. N8093. There is a photo of this C-119 at the bottom of this page, among the photos submitted. Roger Wyckoff 04/08/2007 @ 10:48 [ref: 16136] |
| LEE , IA | I am trying to find a picture and name of the cargo planes that took off across the street from us at Hickam AFB when we lived In Navy Housing 1955-56. I called them "pregnant ducks" because they were so huge and fat. I know they carried jeeps and troops. 02/28/2006 @ 18:08 [ref: 12656] |
| Charles Wilkins Mesa, AZ | I grew up in Hemet, CA. Our airport was the fire bomber base for the Forest Service and CDF.(FS has moved their base to the old Norton AFB) It was very nice to go out to the Pima Air & Space Museum and see a fire bomber from my home town. I may have even seen this aircraft at work fighting fire. 12/11/2005 @ 01:44 [ref: 11946] |
| Dennis Fry Pottstown, PA | Worked on C-119C in Elmendorf AFB Alaska 1955-1957. Would like to see pictures of any of the ten aircraft. 10/07/2005 @ 20:25 [ref: 11423] |
| Allen Chandler Phoenix AZ, AZ | I am looking of photos of C-119 53-8155. This aircraft crashed on 4-28-70. I was on it. I am trying to create a story book on it.
Please send information to allenbchandler@cox.net Thank you 06/09/2005 @ 16:08 [ref: 10439] |
| Tony Lopez Fresno, CA | Was Station At Ashiya AB and Osan AB Flew as Passenger Ashiya Japan to Osan AB korea. 1955-57. Loaded and unloaded Mail in Korea. 04/21/2005 @ 00:12 [ref: 10003] |
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