The C-119 'Flying Boxcar' was manufactured by Fairchild - a total of 1,102 were produced. The C-119 configuration evolved from the C-82 'Packet' . The aircraft is powered by two Wright 3350 engines. Empty weight: - 44,000-lbs Gross weight: - 72,000-lbs Wingspan: 106-ft 6-inches A Westinghouse J-34 jet was added in 1972 by Hawkins & Powers Aviation. This gave the aircraft 3,400 more pounds of thrust and a greater margin of safety. H & P used the aircraft for aerial firefighting in Alaska, the lower 48 states and Mexico. The 2,000 gallon retardant tank consisted of 8 separate tanks that could drop simultaneously or separately, building a fire line 400-ft to 2,000-ft long. Quick removal of the slurry tank enabled the plane to be used for cargo hauling. H & P owns and operates 13 C-119s. The Fairchild C-119 was nicknamed the 'Flying Boxcar' because of all the cargo it could carry, like that of a boxcar on a freight train. It was not huge like the C-133, so it was used far more frequently to haul cargo that had to be loaded and shipped more quickly between shorter distances. It could land at smaller fields, and was good for hauling freight to remote outposts, island bases, and temporary fields. The C-119 could carry up to 62 fully-equipped troops or a 30,000 pound cargo load, personnel, litter patients, and mechanical equipment, and so drop cargo and troops by parachute (utilizing it's 'clamshell' cargo doors in the rear fuselage}. C-119s served principally with Troop Carrier Command Wings; and saw wartime service in Korea with the 314th Air Division as an Air Force medium duty transport aircraft. The aircraft also saw action with the US Navy and Marine Corps (as R4Qs), The C-119 served in the air forces of Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Ethiopia, India, Italy, and Nationalist China. From the 1940's and into the late 1960's, the C-119 was modified and redesigned as new technologies and its uses evolved. The C-119 'Flying Boxcar' was a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport. The first C-119 made its maiden flight in November 1947 as a specialized military freight aircraft developed for the US Army by North American Aviation. In the late 1960's, the Air Force selected the C-119 to replace the AC-47 'Spooky'. The end of World War II brought the cancellation of the North American contract, but Fairchild Hiller continued to produce the plane for the Air Force in a slightly modified form. The C-119 also featured more powerful engines (Pratt & Whitney R-4360s), a widened fuselage, and a strengthened structure. The USAF used the airplane extensively during the Korean Conflict, and as a transport for operations in South Vietnam. Fairchild Hiller was chosen to modify 52 aircraft under the Gunship III program (26 AC-119 G and 26 AC-119 K). The airplane once again entered combat. this time in the ground support role as the AC-119 G 'Shadow' and AC-119 K 'Stinger' gunships mounting side-firing weapons capable of unleashing up to 6.000 rounds per minute per gun when they were fitted with Gatling guns and night illumination systems in Vietnam. Others were converted to fight fires as slurry bombers, modified for fire fighters with the addition of a jet engine on the top of the fuselage. This modification increased the performance of the aircraft. This picture was taken at the Hawkins & Powers Aviation Museum at Greybull, Wyoming on 11 August 2015, Sig....