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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-82A-15-FA Packet
    Last Military Serial:44-23006 USAAF
    Construction Number:10050
    Last Civil Registration:N6997C
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-82A-15-FA sn 44-23006 U...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-82A-15-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, Maryland, USA.

    19 August 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-23006.

    January 1956

    To Samuel C. Rudolph Lumber Corp, Los Angeles, CA with new c/r N6997C.

    From By 1963 to By 1969

    To New Frontier Airlift Corp, Phoenix, AZ keeping c/r N6997C.

    From 1969 to By 1983

    To Allied Aircraft/Robert A. Gallagher, Tucson, AZ.

    From 1969 to By 1983

    Stored unconverted at the Tucson Airport.

    14 January 1977

    Civil registration, N6997C, cancelled.

    1983

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 1994


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Scanned slide.

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Pima museum, Arizona.

    Restored.
    Marked as a C-82 operated by the 7th Geodic Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Group, Forbes AFB, Kansas, 1949.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    3 September 2014

    Civil registration, N6997C, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Johnny Comstedt
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