To civil register as N8501W, John Reffett, Eagle River, AK. N8501W is still with us and relatively well at Palmer,AK!Ī C-119L, but rather a C-119F, according to Joe Baugher: The aircraft is certainly an ANG C-119L which does narrow things." (Nov.2018). Simon later came back to me: "I think it might be N8501W (10880) of DMI Aviation. It was owned by Dross Metals and many of their FAA paper work is sloppy to say the least." The only problem is the aircraft was a R4Q-2 BuN.131690 and the C-119 in the photo is an ex-ANG one from the livery.?
The second digit is covered by a stamp and cannot be made out but it could be a '6' or a '9', or. I have FAA files for N4234S and during 1980 it was briefly registered ' N8?01W'.
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the C-119 you mention with a mystery serial number 'N801W'. Simon Beck, researcher and bookpublisher on the C-82 Packet (C-119 book in the works anno 2018) wrote me the following (20Sep2018): Images of N1040E to compare? N1040E was also a Lockheed Learstar, see 1970 photo. See also ASN report.įact remains that the date is earlier than the alleged date of photography and quoted tailnumber is different than the N801W roughly painted on. Type of accident: no.1 engine failure during flight cruise, emergency landing, made an intentional wheels up landing off airport in open field, fire broke out after impact. NTSB Identification: LAX79FA059 - 14 CFR Part 91 General AviationĮvent occurred Sunday, Jin CASA GRANDE, AZĪircraft: FAIRCHILD C-119L, registration: N1040E The N-number on the photo taken by Steve may have been fictitious?
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The aircraft in the accident as shown below was a drug runner and I recall thisĪccident well, as I was working for the State of Arizona as an investigator.Ĭ-119 exploded on impact, as it was filled with 55gal barrels full of avgas. N801W has always been registered to a Beech 65! "I am wondering if the date on the photo may be incorrect? 1-18) of Propliner magazine, but found no images of this N801W. I enclose a picture of the Marines C-119 I now know to be 131706, taken in October 2009. ' Mystery aircraft page' came up and confirmed that it was 54-0661. Someone suggested a serial and using that your Also, looking back at my last visit in 2009, I had two queries: a C-123 Provider proved elusive (a search on Google yielded nothing). I found your trip report for the AMARG scrap/storage yards, which was very usefull when trying to sort out Sometimes it is nice to be useful and to be thanked: "This is just a thank you! John Wiseman wrote me in Feb.2021, he included this photo: We got KC-130F's from VMGR-352 later in 1975 and changed our Squadron to VMGR-234. This was the next to last C-119 we had in the Marine Reserves. "I was the USMCR copilot in VMR-234 that flew 131706 from NAS Glenview to Davis Monthan AFB on June 6, 1975. More about C-119s used for Flight of the Phoenix click HERE. The fuselage pod was still there in April of 2007, when I last visited." This is where these pics were taken, the first in April 2004, at which time Don Howell of DMI did say the aircraft fuselage was originally meant to go to Africa but the movie producers then said they didn't need this one.īy April 2006, when I took the other pictures, it is interesting to see that the nose numbers had been over-painted. These shots are of the C-119 that didn't make it to Namibia for that movie, but was ready to go.ġ31706 had been a resident of South Western Alloys since at least 1982, when I first visited Tucson and there it remained, until the movie project emerged, when it moved across to DMI. "Thought you might like these, as part of your string on N3276U. Graham Robson sent me this image and explained: Meanwhile the invitation to send contributions for sharing first hand experiences on these airplanes still stands. So I started this page in an attempt to learn a little more about "the Dollar Nineteen" when I started Wikipedia wasn't available yet. There was very little literature on the Fairchild C-119s and no reference books on the individual C-119 individual histories. Fairchild C-119 "Boxcar", Background Information
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