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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119L Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:53-7836 USAF
    Construction Number:11253
    Last Civil Registration:N8504Z
    Latest Owner or Location:Everts, Fairbanks, Alaska

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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 53-7836.

    Converted to a C-119L.

    By April 1974

    Transferred to 129th SOS, 129th SOG, California ANG, Hayward Municipal Airport, CA.
    Operated with markings: CALIF, U.S. AIR FORCE, 836

    22 April 1974


    Photographer: David Davenport

    28 January 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CJ452.

    1979

    To Dross Metals.

    September 1980

    To JD Gifford and Associates.

    January 1981

    To JD Gifford and Associates with new c/r N8504Z.

    February 1985

    To Gerald C. Ball keeping c/r N8504Z.

    August 1986

    To Northern Pacific Transport keeping c/r N8504Z.

    1987

    To Alaska Aircraft Leasing keeping c/r N8504Z.

    August 1989

    J34 turbojet installed.

    August 1992

    To Hawkins and Powers keeping c/r N8504Z.

    21 September 1992

    To Anchorage Flight Inc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N8504Z.

    12 August 1993

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR8504Z (C-119G, 11253) issued.

    22 July 1994


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Fairbanks, Alaska

    23 February 1995

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N8504Z.

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
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    1 January 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR8504Z (C-119G, 11253) issued.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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