The Packet had provided limited service to the Air Force's Tactical Air Command and Military Air Transport Service before its design was found to have several serious problems. The Air Force C-119 and Navy R4Q was initially a redesign of the earlier C-82 Packet, built between 19. The first C-119 made its initial flight in November 1947, and by the time production ceased in 1955, more than 1,100 had been built. The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) was an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute.
51-2640, 781st Troop Carrier Squadron / 465th Troop Carrier Wing. The C-119 was an improved version of the Fairchild C-82A Packet French Union paratroops dropping from a C-119 over Dien Bien Phu in 1954 C-119C, AF Ser.
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