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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119F Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:131708 USMC
    Construction Number:10893
    Last Civil Registration:N7051U
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119F sn 131708 USMC cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:MCAS Miramar (North Side), San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4Q-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 131708 and operated with these markings: 7T.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-119F.


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    10 March 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 4C0026.

    October 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro, CA.

    To MCAS Miramar (North Side), San Diego, CA.
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    28 September 1992

    To unknown owner with c/r N7051U.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Quantico, WY.

    1996


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro Command Museum, CA

    By 14 October 2000

    Markings Applied: 708, HV and 708 on starboard fin, QS and 1317 on port

    14 October 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow

    15 October 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow

    10 July 2013

    To unknown owner with c/r N7051U.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Quantico, WY.

    26 June 2019


    Photographer: Jim Leslie
    Notes: This aircraft as well as a C-117D are located on MCAS Miramar but are not within the Flying Leatherneck Museum spaces.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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