Photographed in one of the scrapyards bordering DM. The very faded letters on the tail read 'AFRES', along with AF619.

Ex USAF 54-565.

USAF 54-0580. I just can't put into words how wonderful it was for me to visit the Pima Air and Space Museum. To walk around/under all these amazing & beautiful old aircraft was a memory that will stay with me for a long time.

Ferried the short distance from Opa-locka Airport, this aircraft awaits completion of work to prepare it for a ferry flight to the museum's headquarters at Hagerstown Airport. It will go on display alongside the museum's C-82 and C-119 aircraft. The aircraft remains at FXE in 2018 and the museum hopes to complete the ferry flight later in the year.

This Provider is parked out on the ramp at Chino. Originally delivered to the USAF as 54-0581 it was then retired to MASDC during 1982.

Flown to the museum in 1981 after being retired from USAF service. In 1998, the plane was restored and painted in the markings it wore while assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing, Eglin AFB, FL. Its nose art, "The Chief", is in honor of its volunteer Crew Chief, retired Chief Master Sergeant Jim Meek. Jim was the flight chief for one of the first C-123J's equipped with ski's to land in Greenland in 1958. He has given over 10,000 volunteer hours to the museum and has cared for the C-123 since 1981

In store at Davis Monthan wearing the 'AG' code of 319 Special Operations Squadron, 1 SOW, based at Eglin AFB, Florida.

Still has AMARC inventory code CP094 on the nose.

WHMC on the tail stands for Wilford Hall Medical Center, which is where this aircraft is displayed.

Built for USAF as C-123B 54-674 and upgraded to C-123K with underwing auxiliary jets and fuel tanks.

Not the prettiest aeroplane in history, the C-123 derived from an assault glider design.

"Large Marge", ex USAF 54-709 and bought from Ray Petkow's Classics in Aviation in December 2003, is a famous aircraft. It featured as the "Jailbird" in the 1997 movie Con Air, in which it did all the flying scenes. It even had two stand-ins, for the destructive scenes. They were N94DT c/n 20155 and ex USAF 56-4361 c/n 20245. All three looked identical, and all wore registration N709RR. Very confusing, but the one in this photo is the only real N709RR. Unfortunately this rare aircraft crashed in Denali National Park on 2 August 2010. Three people lost their lives in the crash.

Good to see this classic transport still active at this time, with just a year left in service with AFRes/302TAW. Retired to MASDC, Davis Monthan 22.7.81 and now displayed at 82nd Airborne Division Memorial, Fort Bragg, NC

This AFRes/302TAW Provider, heading a line of six, was placed into store at DM on 29.6.80 and scrapped in 2013