In October of 2018, Columbus Municipal Airport Brian Payne emailed Jim Sellars, then-president of Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum, to tell him about a C-119 aircraft in Wyoming — the same type of ...

Photo provided Submitted photo Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum volunteers have finished installing the outer wings on a C-119 “Flying Boxcar” aircraft which has been moved to a display site near ...

It took three passes, but the C-119 was able to successfully snag the canopy at an altitude of 8,000, after which a winch operator aboard the aircraft then reeled in the satellite. Satellite ...

Until now. The plane — a boxy C-119 aircraft known by its radio call sign, Gamble Chalk 1 — has been found. Retired geologist Michael Rocereta, who spent much of his career searching for ...

It’s been nearly half a century since a plane like Charlie was in Columbus. Charlie is a Fairfield C-119 “Flying Boxcar” and will be sitting outside the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum by the ...

Washington — The U.S. House passed a $768 billion defense policy bill Tuesday night that left out a requirement that the Air Force put forward a timeline for recovering a C-119 airplane that ...

A deadly crash of a C-119 transport plane near Shepherd was front-page news nearly 55 years ago.