Photographer: William Draeger.

Photographer: William Draeger

46 BA Visited Hawker Siddeley Dynamics on a regular basis.

K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as C-119F 22116 for RCAF, later converted to C-119G, struck of charge 1967. Hawkins and Powers 1976, stored Greybull. Made airworthy from 1991 and flown to Lawson AAF for display at National Infantry Museum, Fort Benning, GA in 1993.

K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as C-119F 22131 for RCAF, later converted to C-119G, struck of charge 1967. Aircraft International Associates N5216R 1971, Hawkins and Powers 1972, converted to Tanker 136, withdrawn 1987. Flown to Battle Mountain Aircraft Museum, NV around 1992, displayed there with a jet pod numbered "137". Registration cancelled 2012. Museum became defunct later, aircraft remained in store. Acquired 2019 by Rolling Boxcar Alaska, the Cockpit and fuselage will be mounted onto a bus chassis and used as a mobile museum, coffee bar and classroom. Dismantled for that purpose in 2020.

K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as C-119F 22113 for RCAF, later converted to C-119G, struck of charge 1967. Aircraft International Associates N3935 1971, Hawkins and Powers 1972, converted to Tanker 139, Withdrawn 1987. Displayed at Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting with false markings "N5216R Tanker 136".

One of two C-119s marked as N3003 at Greybull. Dismantled 2020 for Atterbury Bakalar Museum and moved to Columbus, IN for display.

K25 slide scan. Built 1952 as 22106 for RCAF, struck off charge 1967. Hawkins and Powers N3003 1976, stored Greybull in RCAF colours, used for parts. Spray painted registration faintly visible on boom.

Previous identity unknown. Fitted with underwing spray bars and flown as sprayer "03". This was one of two C-119s marked as N3003 on the ground at Greybull at the same time. The other aircraft was ex-RCAF 22106, at that time still in faded RCAF colours and with no roof-mounted jet pack.

Formerly RCAF 22131. Tanked by Hawkins and Powers Aviation at Greybull and certificated as N5216R with roof mounted jet pack in 1975. Following the structural failure and mid-air breakup of one of their C-119Gs during a fire attack in California in 1987, H&P grounded their entire fleet of this type. Traded to USAF Museum in 1998, then delivered to Battle Mountain Air Museum, NV.

Seen at an Armed Forces Day air show at Lockbourne AFB, Columbus, Ohio.

Navy equivalent of C-119F. Assigned to VMR-153.

Formerly RCAF 22113. Tanked at Greybull with roof jet pack in 1973. Seen here retired to open storage.

Acquired by Hawkins and Powers at Greybull/WY in 1991 when it was already registered as N37636. Circa 2008 it was passed on to The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, also at Greybull.

When I photographed this aircraft in 2012 I did not know that I had photographed it in 1965 and even had a flight in it. Now its back in its beautiful RCAF scheme

Built for the US Navy as 131673 in 1953. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB wirh park code 4C016 in 1972. To Dross Metals scrapyard in 1980. Registered as N1394N in 1982. Still current on the register in 2021.

1952 Vintage ex US Marine Corps 131695. Withdrawn to MASDC in 1973 before being sold to Pacific International Foods in 1981 for fish hauling in Alaska. Withdrawn from use and stored at Anchorage in the mid 1980s. Still current on the US register at Palmer, Alaska and although well cared for by its owner, has not flown for many years.