With stalwarts like the Douglas C-47 setting the bar high, Fairchild rose to the challenge, developing the C-82 Packet and its improved successor, the C-119 Flying Boxcar.

He just closed on a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, which he intends to turn into a summer-only rental that keeps most of the original systems inside intact.

It’s a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, a military transport aircraft produced from 1949 to 1955, which he says is “so ugly, it’s cool.” Control tower stay with Northern Lights ...

It’s a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, a military transport aircraft produced from 1949 to 1955, which he says is “so ugly, it’s cool.” Control tower stay with Northern Lights ...

His parents were technicians at Fairchild Aircraft in Hagerstown, where the C-119 plane — nicknamed the Flying Boxcar — was manufactured.

It was also unfair to compare costs between the two planemakers. said Kaiser, because the C-119 made by Fairchild is not as difficult to build as the modified C-119 being made at Willow Run.

When New Hampshire's sharp-tongued Senator Styles Bridges charged last November that the Air Force was paying Kaiser-Frazer $1.2 million apiece for the same C-119 Flying Boxcar that Fairchild ...

A formation of four C-119's was flying at an altitude of 5000 feet to the south of Frankfurt, Germany. At the same time a US Air Force Republic F-84E Thunderjet (51-628) did a sharp left turn in front ...

The genesis of the ‘Flying Boxcar’ was marked by a determined effort to rectify the structural shortcomings and limited power output of its predecessor, the C-82 ‘Packet.’ Manufactured by Fairchild ...

The new logo of the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars was meant to pay homage to the C-119 that was built in Washington County, as well as the community.