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    Airframe Family: Fairchild C-82 Packet / C-119 Flying Boxcar
    Latest Model:C-82A-10-FA Packet
    Last Military Serial:44-22991 USAAF
    Construction Number:10035
    Compressed ID:Fairchild C-82A-10-FA sn 44-22991 U...
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-82A-10-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, Maryland, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-22991.

    From Circa 1950 to Circa 1959

    Transferred to Ravenna Arsenal.
    Leon Cleaver comments: As I recall, Walter indicated he bought remains from the Ravenna Arsenal, probably part of the NACA crash tests of the early 1950s. My first trip to his property was in 1967 and the C-82 was already there.

    By 1965

    To Walter Soplata Aviation Collection, Newbury, Cleveland, OH.
    Survives here incomplete, apparently the fuselage only.
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    Circa July 1967


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver

    1982


    Photographer: Michael Jones

    25 October 1993


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Aft section of C-82, B-57 fuselage under shelter
    Credits
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Leon Cleaver
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