COLUMBUS, Ind. — Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum volunteers are continuing to make progress on a C-119 “Flying Boxcar” aircraft the museum purchased in 2019 and hope to move it to a display site near the Columbus Municipal Airport in time for Memorial Day.
The 40,000-pound plane, which is not airworthy, was taken apart last year at an airport in Greybull, Wyoming, where the aircraft’s parts were loaded onto trucks and driven 1,460 miles to the Columbus Municipal Airport. The final pieces of the aircraft arrived in July.
The plane is now at the airport, where volunteers recently completed installing some major components on the aircraft — including its engines, tail booms and a horizontal stabilizer — in preparation for moving the plane to its display site just south of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft now on display near the museum, said Skip Taylor, a museum member who is co-leading the C-119 project.
“You know how these things are, they kind of go in spurts,” Taylor said. “You prep, prep, prep and then you get something that looks significant done.”
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