Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar from the movie Flight Of The Phoenix | in 4K

It's a shame it's in such poor shape

Guess that one's going to end up in the BONE YARD too. Sad Sad. How many Beer Can's ya recon ?

I am only here because I wanted to see if that plane was real...ie... was it a real production plane or some cgi gimmick ...... now I know 😁👍

Nice to see her.. but what a shame she is in such poor upkeep.

This must be a early model , I mechanic an flue on a D model in 1959-62 Edwards AFB. And some with the crews that cought satellites around Hawaii, those guys were on the edge.Great flyers.

I tought these all had four blade props

Great walk around video, I was a crew member, Flight Engineer/ Flight Mechanic, on these for almost 9 yrs. This is the last type of the C-119's that actually flew in the Air Force and is a C-119L. In the 72'-73' time frame , the Air Force converted 20 some C-119G's to "L"s ..... from a 4 blade Aeroproducts propeller to a more efficient 3 blade Hamilton Standard propellers off of C-121C Connie's. This is a Koren War era transport not WWII. Fairchild and Kaiser Fraizer built the C-119's. Our Unit the 130th SOG flew the very last C-119's in the inventory to the Boneyard in September 1975. It has R3350 radial engines and the C-119C's I first checked out in had R4360 radial engines. Ours had "clam shell rear doors" and they also made C-119J's with "beaver tail" rear doors designed to aerial retrieve returning space capsules. I have flown all over USA, South America and Europe in these old birds. Fun days !!!

My dad was a test pilot for those when they were in willow run Have some nic e pics and his log books ( ya plural) as he started off flying Ferry command during ww 2 Then with Kaiser Frasier testing for delivery.

My father flew the AC-119 gunship version with jet assist in Vietnam. It had a 4 bladed prop.

Thanks you for sharing this with us! Btw where was this and is it still there?

Our AF Reserve Hospital unit flew to Kessler AFB in 10 of these C119's!
They called it the Dollar-nineteen!
The flight engineer said that when they did the take-off roll at O'Hare he said 5 Hail Mary's!
He Was Jewish! That sez something!!!

The original film was really good...

Thanks for posting!!

Remember seeing her back in the 80's in Greybull, WY. She was cannibalized by Hawkins & Powers Aviation for their other C-119s in the fleet.

Does she fly still by any chance or how much would it take to get her airworthy again?

Think the original "flight of phoenix" with Jimmy Stewart was a C-82

I was just at buckeye airport the other day and got a tour of this plane. Pretty neat to see the actual plane in real life so close to my house

Fairchild is an underappreciated name in the Aviation Industry. And yet they have made some daaamn fine machines! Their most successful model is the notorious A-10 Thunderbolt. AKA the Warthog.

wasn't the movie version with glass roof?

I saw every single hole and a lit bit the plane😆

I’ve been to Buckeye and seen her! There are a lot of other awesome relics on the field.

The original "Flight of the Phoenix", in 1965, with Jimmy Stewart, used a C-82, instead of the C-119, a much better movie also.

March 25, 2021----It's been a few years since I've been out to Stead, Nevada's airport, but at one time there was a C-119 out there. It was used in the movie ConAir, with a decal still on the left side of the plane, just under the cockpit windows.

Time has not been kind to the gorgeous lady

Phenomenal!!.

Sadly I miss these old classic aircrafts with their beautiful sounding classic radial engines
Thank you for sharing

That's sad to such a awesome plane rotting away like that I don't see how hollywood just puts icon props out to rust and decay!? 🤔😩🍻🍾😉👍😊

Such a great looking plane

Is this aircraft still flyable, or has it been abandoned?

These have the massive 28 CYL P&W engine largest piston engine ever in service.

Nice job, showing lots of details, for modelers

Ave fénix,!!!👌

she's certainly seen better days :(

Beautiful aircraft.

thats cool, they still have it sitting somewhere? out of all the movies i was sure this thing got destroyed after the movie

First airplane ride I ever had was in a C-119. It was an ROTC trip.

Wrong. It was a c-82 in Flight of Phoenix.

I went on this ship one day in Port of Spain Trinidad in the 2000s (on the old south-side ramp) when it was returning from filming in the Sahara for the Phoenix movie. It had the roof-top jet pack (which was sorely needed) then, and a huge fuel tank mounted in the cargo bay. It fueled up, took off, had an engine issue and returned. They resolved it, and took off again for somewhere in the US. We passed it overhead as we were returning to MIA later, and chatted a bit on the radio with them, far below, as we were at 30~ something thousand ft. in a DC-8. The "good ole days"...

That plane now starred in Transformers Rise of the Beasts as Stratosphere

One plane that truly deserves saving

sSo; is she due for restoration or has she been dumped? Classic, functional beauty.

how do we know this is the plane from the movie or one like it?

I was a mechanic on one of these while in the Marine Corps in Seattle naval air station, SAND POINT!! Long again and long gone sadly!!

nice camper

I want to visit it what airport is it at?

i love this plane and the movie. "we are not garbage"...what a wonderful scene