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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119L Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:53-8087 USAF
    Construction Number:190
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119L sn 53-8087 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina

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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 53-8087.

    Converted to a C-119L.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 82D AIRBORNE DIVISION WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM, Fort Bragg, NC.

    Placed on display with 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, NC.
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    27 December 2001


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Fort Bragg, NC.

    27 December 2001


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Fort Bragg, NC.

    27 July 2013


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At 82nd Airborne Museum Fort Bragg, NC
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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