Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Abbreviations 3 Introduction: C-82 Development History 5 Section One The Airplane 17 Mission 24 Specifications 27 Serial Number List 29 Variants 32 Steward-Davis Jet-Packet 41 Jet-Packet Variants 53 The Flight of the Phoenix 57 Section Two Military Operators 71 Section Three Civil Operators/Owners 111 Section Four Production Histories 150 Appendix I: Civil Registration to Serial Number Cross-References 291 Appendix II: C-82 Retirement Bases/Civil Sales and NACA Assignments 294 Appendix III: Unknown Identities and Dispositions 299 Appendix IV: Conversions and Unique Packets 301 Appendix V: Attrition 303 Appendix VI: Accidents 304 Appendix VII: Existing Aircraft 308 Appendix VIII: Civil C-82A Checklist 309 Postscript: Sebring C-82 Packets 312 Bibliography 313 Index 315.
Fairchild C-82 Packet : The Military and Civil History