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Aircraft:
Northrop YC-125A Raider
- Reg: XB-GEY photos
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Serial #:
48-0636
- Airline: Private
- Photo Date: Apr 06, 2014
- Uploaded: Jul 19, 2014
- Other Location - Tucson Pima Air and Space Museum, USA - Arizona
Notes:
The Northrop YC-125 was intended for use as a tactical transport for rough, short fields. This was the he last tri-motor propeller driven aircraft to see service in the U.S. military. By the time the C-125 was ready for production the jobs it had been intended to do were being done by helicopters and the C-123. The Air Force decided that it had no flying job for the few C-125s that were built. Most, like this one, went directly from the factory to technical schools for use as non-flying ground trainers. After brief military careers most of the 23 C-125s built were sold to a Florida company that then resold them to airlines in Latin America. Most were out of service by the mid-1960s. As of 2002 only two Raiders are known to exist, both in museums in the United States.
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The Northrop YC-125 was intended for use as a tactical transport for rough, short fields. This was the he last tri-motor propeller driven aircraft to see service in the U.S. military. By the time the C-125 was ready for production the jobs it had been intended to do were being done by helicopters and the C-123. The Air Force decided that it had no flying job for the few C-125s that were built. Most, like this one, went directly from the factory to technical schools for use as non-flying ground trainers. After brief military careers most of the 23 C-125s built were sold to a Florida company that then resold them to airlines in Latin America. Most were out of service by the mid-1960s. As of 2002 only two Raiders are known to exist, both in museums in the United States.Camera
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- Reg: XB-GEY photos
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Aircraft:
Northrop YC-125A Raider
- Airline: Private
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Serial #:
48-0636
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Photo Location
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Other Location - Tucson Pima Air and Space Museum
- USA - Arizona
