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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:22131 RCAF
    Construction Number:10956
    Last Civil Registration:N5216R
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 22131 RCAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Battle Mountain Air Museum, Lander County Airport, Battle Mountain, Nevada

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119G.

    30 July 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 22131.

    13 July 1967

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

    October 1971

    Transferred to Saskatoon AB, SK.
    Stored at the Saskatoon base.

    To Crown Assets Disposal Corporation (CADC).
    Put up for disposal by the CADC.

    From October 1971 to By 1972

    To Aircraft International Associates, Omaha, NE with new c/r N5216R.

    26 February 1975

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR5216R (C-119G, 10956) issued.

    From 1975 to By 2000

    To Hawkins Powers Aviation, Greybull, WY.

    Jetpack conversion added.

    Operated as fire service #136.

    From By 1990 to By 1998

    Withdrawn from use and placed in open storage at Greybull, WY.

    1 December 1992

    To United States Air Force Museum.
    FAA notes sale reported on this date.

    1 December 1992

    To unknown owner with c/r N5216R.

    By 1995

    To Battle Mountain Air Museum, Lander County Airport, Battle Mountain, NV.
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    7 October 1995


    Photographer: P Frei
    Notes: Photographed at Battle Mountain Airport, NV.

    15 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 December 2012

    Civil registration, N5216R, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Canadian Military Aircraft - Serials and Photographs by J. A. Griffin
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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