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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:22113 RCAF
    Construction Number:10824
    Last Civil Registration:N3935
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 22113 RCAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, Wyoming

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a C-119F.

    3 October 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 22113.

    Converted to a C-119G.

    From Circa 1965 to November 1971

    Assigned to Sasakatoon AB, SK for storage.

    5 April 1967

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    November 1971

    To Aircraft International Associates Inc, Omaha NE with new c/r N3935.

    26 April 1972

    To Hawkins Powers Aviation Inc, Greybull, WY keeping c/r N3935.

    25 May 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR3935 (C-119G, 10824) issued.

    Operated as fire service #139.

    Based at Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    Markings Applied: 136, N5216R
    Preserved as tanker 136, N5216R, i.e. these are false markings.

    13 September 1997


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    2000

    To The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    2 August 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    12 April 2007

    To unknown owner with c/r N3935.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    21 June 2012

    Civil registration, N3935, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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