The Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar" was a Cold War transport that entered the Air Force inventory in 1949, its nickname referring to its blocky fuselage and cargo-carrying capability. The C-119F displayed here, serial #22105, was built in 1953 by Fairchild Aircraft in Hagerstown, MD. It served with the Royal Canadian Air Force until 1965, then fought forest fires in the U.S. northwest before becoming a static display in 1989 at General Mitchell Air Reserve Station in Milwaukee, home of the 440th AW. Moved to Niagara Falls ARS in 2006 on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, it honors a 440th TCW C-119G aircraft and crew that vanished without a trace over the "Bermuda Triangle" in June 1965 and is painted to represent that plane, serial number 51-2680. At Niagara Falls Municipal Airport, the 328th Troop Carrier Squadron flew eighteen C-119G Boxcars from 1958 to 1971 before converting to the C-130A "Hercules."