C-119 Flying Boxcar US Airways comparable in length to a

comparable in length to a football field and towering at six stories high

With its spacious fuselage cross-section and high-density seating arrangement

This spiffy little biplane won the 1931 Bendix Race

The CH-46E is used by the Marine Corps to provide all-weather

C-119 Flying Boxcar US Airways comparable in length to aFairchild C 119 Flying Boxcar airplane model. The Fairchild C 119, developed from the WW II Fairchild C 82, was designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute. The first C 119 made its initial flight in November 1947 and by the time production ceased in 1955, more than 1,100 C 119s had been built. The USAF used the airplane extensively during the Korean War and many were