That would be the C-119 Flying Boxcar, which was developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport that was designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter ...

The C-119, also known as the “Flying Boxcar” due to the unusual shape of its fuselage, was in service with the U.S. Air Force from 1947 to 1972 and was designed to carry cargo, personnel ...

The C-119, also known as the “Flying Boxcar” due to the unusual shape ... the base longer than any other aircraft. Manufacturers Fairchild and Kaiser built 1,151 of the C-119s from 1949 ...

Fairchild rose to the challenge, developing the C-82 Packet and its improved successor, the C-119 Flying Boxcar. These new designs incorporated then-modern tricycle landing gear and, notably ...

The Hagerstown Flying Boxcars are a little bit ... hat and red-and-white baseball uniform astride a C-119, which was manufactured by Fairchild Aircraft in Hagerstown in the 1940s and '50s.

When New Hampshire’s sharp-tongued Senator Styles Bridges charged last November that the Air Force was paying Kaiser-Frazer $1.2 million apiece for the same C-119 Flying Boxcar that Fairchild ...

His parents were technicians at Fairchild Aircraft in Hagerstown, where the C-119 plane — nicknamed the Flying Boxcar — was manufactured. Stryker grew up to become a phenomenal baseball ...