Registration / Serial:55-4031
Alternate Serial:54031
Aircraft Original Type:Chase C-123 Avitruc
Aircraft Generic Type:Fairchild C-123 Provider
Aircraft Version:Fairchild YC-123E Provider
Manufacturers:Fairchild / Stroukoff
C/n (msn):Not known
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
City / Airport:Philadelphia - International (KPHL / PHL)Map
Region / Country:Pennsylvania, United States
Event:Philadephia Air Show 1955
Photo Date:1 September 1955 to 11 September 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact
Photo ID:305354Submit Correction
View count: 2097
Stroukoff fitted this aircraft with their "Pantobase" landing gear system, which permitted landing on any reasonably flat surface: land, water or snow. Trials were successful and the YC-123E was further developed into the YC-134.
This particular aircraft is widely reported as ex Fairchild-built C-123B 54-554 (c/n 20003), but that seems unlikely because it still has the original Chase tail with rounded tip and no dorsal fin. It is almost certainly one of the uncompleted Chase-built C-123Bs 52-1628 to 52-1631, or the rebuilt YC-123D 53-8068.
Registration / Serial:55-4031
Alternate Serial:54031
Aircraft Version:Fairchild YC-123E Provider
C/n (msn):Not known
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
City / Airport:Philadelphia - International (KPHL / PHL)Map
Region / Country:Pennsylvania, United States
Photo Date:1 September 1955 to 11 September 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact
Registration / Serial:55-4031
Alternate Serial:54031
Aircraft Original Type:Chase C-123 Avitruc
Aircraft Generic Type:Fairchild C-123 Provider
Aircraft Version:Fairchild YC-123E Provider
Manufacturers:Fairchild / Stroukoff
C/n (msn):Not known
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
City / Airport:Philadelphia - International (KPHL / PHL)Map
Region / Country:Pennsylvania, United States
Event:Philadephia Air Show 1955
Photo Date:1 September 1955 to 11 September 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact
Photo ID:305354Submit Correction
View count: 2097
Stroukoff fitted this aircraft with their "Pantobase" landing gear system, which permitted landing on any reasonably flat surface: land, water or snow. Trials were successful and the YC-123E was further developed into the YC-134.
This particular aircraft is widely reported as ex Fairchild-built C-123B 54-554 (c/n 20003), but that seems unlikely because it still has the original Chase tail with rounded tip and no dorsal fin. It is almost certainly one of the uncompleted Chase-built C-123Bs 52-1628 to 52-1631, or the rebuilt YC-123D 53-8068.
Registration / Serial:55-4031
Alternate Serial:54031
Aircraft Version:Fairchild YC-123E Provider
C/n (msn):Not known
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
City / Airport:Philadelphia - International (KPHL / PHL)Map
Region / Country:Pennsylvania, United States
Photo Date:1 September 1955 to 11 September 1955
Photo from:Bob Garrard CollectionContact