Several hundred pieces of a C-119 “Flying Boxcar” purchased by the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum have made it to Columbus.
The 40,000-pound plane, which was not airworthy, was taken apart over the past few months at an airport in Greybull, Wyoming.
The aircraft’s tail booms, engines and several hundred other parts were loaded onto a 26-foot box truck and 53-foot flatbed semi-truck last week and driven some 1,500-miles to Columbus.
Shortly before sunrise Monday, a group of around 15 air museum volunteers and other officials started unloading an estimated more than 8 metric tons of parts from the disassembled aircraft at Columbus Municipal Airport.
The aircraft will be reassembled there, restored and put on public display just south of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft now on display.
For more on this story, see Tuesday’s Republic
