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    The C-82 Packet is a twin-engine, twin-boom cargo aircraft designed and built by Fairchild Aircraft. It was used briefly by the United States Army Air...
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    military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized...
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    World War II, Fairchild produced PT-19/PT-23/PT-26 (Cornell) and AT-21 Gunner trainers, C-82 Packet transports and drones. The Fairchild AT-21 Gunner,...
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    Service ceiling: 23,900 ft (7,300 m) Related development Fairchild C-82 Packet Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar Aircraft of comparable role, configuration...
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  • History". Fairchild C-82 Packet. Archived from the original on 9 September 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2021. "History of the manufacturer Fairchild Recording...
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  • Composites Long-EZ 03-0001 Fairchild C-82 Packet 48-581 Learjet C-21A 84-0064 Lockheed C-130E Hercules 62-1787 "Spare 617" Lockheed C-141C Starlifter 66-0177...
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    The Fairchild C-26 "Metroliner" is the designation for the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner series twin turboprop aircraft in the service of the United...
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  • Flight of the Phoenix. Frank Towns is the pilot of a twin-engine Fairchild C-82 Packet cargo plane flying from Jaghbub to Benghazi in Libya; Lew Moran...
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    of a planned airborne operation. A heavy transport aircraft, the Fairchild C-82 Packet, was developed to specifically carry the M22 inside its fuselage...
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    DC-3/Douglas C-47 (1935) Douglas DC-4 (1942) Eastman E-2 Sea Rover (1928) Evangel 4500 (1964) Fairchild 24 (1932) Fairchild C-82 Packet (1944) Fairchild FC-2/51...
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  • fictional type built by oil explorers of pieces of their crashed Fairchild C-82 Packet downed in the North African desert in The Flight of the Phoenix...
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    The Fairchild 82 and the 34-42 Niska were a family of utility aircraft produced in Canada in the mid-1930s, based on designs by Fairchild Aircraft Ltd...
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    Dumbo (1952 – c. 1953) Fairchild C-82 Packet (1952–1953) Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly (1952 – c. 1953) Grumman SA-16 Albatross (later HU-16) (1953 – c. 1960, 1962–1968)...
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  • transaction increased TWA's share of enplanements in St. Louis from 56.6% to 82%. TWA had pilot bases in many European cities such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Zürich...
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  • using parts taken from other aircraft to resemble the reconstructed Fairchild C-82 Packet shown prominently in the film as having crashed in the desert. The...
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    high-set flight deck Fairchild C-82 Packet the original twin-engine piston-powered transport of pod-and-boom construction Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar -...
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    types. Ryan AQM-34 Firebee (B/C) Fairchild AQM-41 Petrel Bell Model 65 Fairchild C-123 Provider Fairchild C-82 Packet Data from: Aircraft engines of...
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    operated: Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter, Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, Fairchild C-82 Packet, Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and...
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    prototype participated in competitive trials against an American Fairchild C-82 Packet. It also demonstrated its ability to transport heavy loads, including...
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    training, glider training and in exercises with Curtiss C-46 Commandos and Fairchild C-82 Packets until 1949 when it was inactivated as a result of budget...
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    Protection facility opened in May 2018. On August 8, 1956, a Sky Spray Fairchild C-82 Packet returning from a spraying mission experienced smoke coming from...
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    existed until 2010. In 1925 Sherman Fairchild purchased a 20% stake in the Mexican airline, introducing Fairchild FC2 airplanes in 1928. In February 1929...
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    The Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 were versions of the Fokker F27 Friendship twin-engined, turboprop, passenger aircraft manufactured under...
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  • Douglas XCG-17 Fairchild 24 Fairchild C-61 Fairchild C-82 Packet Fairchild C-86 Fairchild C-88 Fairchild C-96 Ford Trimotor Funk C-92 Hamilton C-89 Handley...
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    The Fairchild C-123 Provider is an American military transport aircraft designed by Chase Aircraft and built by Fairchild Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force...
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    (1952–1953) Grumman SA-16 Albatross (later HU-16) (1952–1960, 1961-1968) Fairchild C-82 Packet (1952–1953) Douglas SC-47 Skytrain (1953–1956) Sikorsky H-19 (also...
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    June 2020 – present Douglas C-47 Skytrain (1947–1949) Fairchild C-82 Packet (1947–1949) Waco CG-15 (1947–1949) Lockheed C-130 Hercules (1966–1975) Bell...
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    Grumman SA-16 Albatross (1952–1958) Sikorsky SH-19 (1952–1958) Fairchild C-82 Packet (1952–1953) Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk (1991–2023) Sikorsky HH-60W...
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    Dornier 328 (redirect from Fairchild 328)
    Luftfahrt GmbH, the firm was acquired in 1996 by Fairchild Aircraft. The resulting firm, named Fairchild-Dornier, manufactured the 328 family in Oberpfaffenhofen...
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    paper impregnated with Bakelite however the most successful were the AGO C.I and C.II which used a more conventional wooden shell, built up from strips of...
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