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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:53-8073 USAF
    Construction Number:176
    Last Civil Registration:N9027K
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 53-8073 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Jon Kotwicki, Big Lake

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119G.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-8073.

    27 September 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CJ471.

    November 1978

    To Starbird Inc, Seattle WA with new c/r N9027K.

    Operated by J. D. Gifford and Associates, Anchorage AK.

    6 June 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9027K (C-119, 53-8073) issued.

    1985

    To Alaska Commercial Fishing (and) Agricultural Bank, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N9027K.

    February 1986

    To Northern Pacific Transport Inc, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N9027K.

    July 1987

    To Alaska Aircraft Leasing Inc, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N9027K.

    September 1992

    To Anchorage Flight Inc, Anchorage AK keeping c/r N9027K.

    24 August 1995

    To Classic Air Transport, Ridgewood NJ keeping c/r N9027K.

    1 June 1998

    To Brooks Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N9027K.

    2 May 2000


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Anchorage, Alaska

    Based at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, AK.
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    Based at Brooks Fuel/Don Brooks, Fairbanks, AK.
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    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR9027K (C-119, 53-8073) issued.

    14 May 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Brooks Fuel, Anchorage, AK

    23 February 2018

    Civil registration, N9027K, cancelled.

    4 May 2018

    To Alaska Aviation Museum, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N9027K.

    13 May 2023

    To unknown owner with c/r N9027K.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Fairbanks, AK.

    10 February 2024

    To unknown owner with c/r N9027K.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Fairbanks, AK.

    6 March 2024


    Photographer: Jon Kotwicki
    Notes: Measurements taken to plan for cutting and transport from Ted Stevens ANC to 57AK for final resting place of 9027K

    21 August 2024

    To Jon Kotwicki, Big Lake.
    Jonathan Kotwicki comments (26 August 2024): I bought N9027K to move to my back yard in Big Lake along with 3 other large aircraft. The airplane is scheduled to be turned into a small aviation library and Airbnb rental.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Jonathan Kotwicki
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