Mike Wolanin | The Republic A view of the C-119 at the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum and Columbus Municipal Airport in Columbus, Ind., Monday, Jan. 4, 2022. Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum volunteers have ...

Ladders surround the C-119 Flying Boxcar being restored at the Columbus Municipal Airport in Columbus, Ind., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Vietnam veterans of the 71st Special Operations Squadron visited ...

That would be the C-119 Flying Boxcar, which was developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport that was designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients ...

Here’a What You Need to Remember: Among its most important airlift mission of the war was in the bitterly cold winter of 1950 when C-119Bs were used to air-drop bridge sections to U.S. troops trapped ...

The C-119 Flying Boxcar will be the sixth and final historical aircraft featured in the inaugural History & Heritage Race Series, powered by the Air Force Marathon, beginning Nov. 1. Each of this year ...