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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:22133 RCAF
    Construction Number:10992
    Last Civil Registration:N383S
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 22133 RCAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hawkins and Powers Aviation

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119G.

    27 August 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 22133.


    Photographer: Unknown

    1967

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

    From April 1967 to 1969

    To Aircraft International Associates, Omaha NE with new c/r N383S.

    9 May 1967

    To Steward-Davis.

    9 May 1967

    Ferry flight.
    Delivered to Long Beach, CA.

    Conv. to prototype STOLMaster Steward-Davis STOLMaster: two underwing jets.

    19 February 1968

    Markings Applied: STOLMaster
    Visited Geneva, Switzerland.

    August 1969

    To Lee Argyle Corp, Miami FL keeping c/r N383S.

    From February 1970 to 1971

    To Ren-Aire Aviation Inc/Carl W. Renstrom, Omaha, NE keeping c/r N383S.

    From 1971 to 1979

    To Hawkins and Powers Aviation, Greybull, WY keeping c/r N383S.

    Operated as fire service #133.

    From 1971 to 1973

    Tanked at Chico, CA, by Aero Union for H and P. Was fitted with a roof jetpack.

    1977

    To Hawkins and Powers Aviation keeping c/r N383S.
    Markings added: 133

    September 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: At Lancaster Fox Field, California was Hawkins and Powers Aviations N383S tanker #133. This former RCAF C-119G had made a European sales tour in 1968 as the prototype Steward-Davis STOLMaster freighter conversion

    9 June 1979

    Crashed.
    Crashed firebombing, near Palm Springs, CA.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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