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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-119G Flying Boxcar
    Last Military Serial:CP-9 FABe
    Construction Number:10689
    Last Civil Registration:N2700
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-119G sn CP-9 FABe cn 10...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wings Museum, Balcombe, Handcross, West Sussex, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-119G.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-2700.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Force Arienne Belge with s/n CP-9.

    To BATA International with new c/r 3C-ABA.

    August 1982


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: At Manston, Kent, UK

    28 December 1984

    To Aces High Limited, Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Surrey with new c/r G-BLSW (FAIRCHILD C-119G PACKET, 51-2700).

    4 October 1985

    Civil registration, G-BLSW, cancelled.

    To John P. Downey, East Middlebury, VT with new c/r N2700.

    12 May 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at North Weald

    18 April 1991

    Civil registration, N2700, cancelled.

    To Wings Museum, Balcombe, Handcross, West Sussex, England.
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