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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:52-5850 USAF
    Construction Number:11009
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn 52-5850 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a C-119G.

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-5850.

    1953

    Transferred to 932nd Troop Carrier (Medium) Group, Scott AFB, IL.

    Circa 1963

    Transferred to Farichild, Saint Augustine.
    Overhauled by Fairchild.

    27 January 1967

    Transferred to 934th Troop Carrier (Medium) Group, Minneapolis Saint. Paul, MN.

    1 July 1967

    934th Troop Carrier (Medium) Group was redesignated as 934th Tactical Airlift Group.

    30 January 1970

    Transferred to 933rd Tactical Air Lift Group, Mitchell Airport, Milwaukee, WI.

    25 March 1970

    Transferred to 928th Tactical Air Lift Group, OHare Airport, Chicago, IL.

    Circa 1971

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Circa 1971

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Grissom Air Museum, Peru, IN.

    1971

    Loaned to Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
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    16 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Grissom Air Museum at Grissom AFB, Indiana.

    16 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Grissom Air Museum at Grissom AFB, Indiana.

    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    15 May 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    11 May 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At the Grissom AFB Museum.
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Information Exchange by Scott Rose
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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