Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California. C-119J 51-8037 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. This aircraft was specially modified for the mid-air retrieval of space capsules reentering the atmosphere from orbit. On 19 August 1960 this aircraft made the world's first mid-air recovery of a capsule returning from space when it "snagged" the parachute lowering the Discoverer 14 satellite at altitude southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. The aircraft was delivered to the museum in November 1963. C-119L 53-3144 – Air Commando Park at Hurlburt Field in Mary Esther, Florida. 53-8084 – Air Park at Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville, Arkansas. 53-8087 – 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina. R4Q-2 131688 – Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. 131708 – Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. Under restoration or in storage C-119F RCAF 22108 – stored at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, Wyoming. C-119G 53-8073 – stored at Alaska Aviation Museum in Anchorage, Alaska RCAF 22106 – stored at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, Wyoming. RCAF 22113 – stored at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, Wyoming. RCAF 22135 – stored at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, Wyoming. C-119L 53-7836 – stored with Everts Air Fuel in Fairbanks, Alaska. 53-8074 – stored at the Flying J Ranch near Pima, Arizona. 53-8076 – stored at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, Wyoming. 53-8150 – stored at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, Wyoming. Specifications (C-119C) Notable appearances in media See also References Notes Citations Bibliography Website of origin: USAF Museum Bridgman, Leonard. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1951–52. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd., 1951. Bridgman, Leonard. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57. New York: The McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. Grandolini, Albert. "French 'Packets': Fairchild C-119 Boxcars in French Indochina". Air Enthusiast, Volume 66, November/December 1996, pp. 52–60. . Lloyd, Alwyn T. Fairchild C-82 Packet and C-119 Flyng Boxcars. Hinkley, UK: Midland Counties, 2005. . Swanborough, F.G. and Peter M. Bowers. United States Military Aircraft since 1909. London: Putnam, 1963. United States Air Force Museum Guidebook. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio: Air Force Museum Foundation.