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C-123 ‘Thunderpig’ Returning to Oshkosh in 2023

June 3, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE The Fairchild C-123 Provider served as a cargo and troop transport aircraft throughout the late 1950s to mid-1970s. About 300 were built, but only one survives in flying condition. That airplane, affectionately known […]

C-123K ‘Ponderous Polly’ – April Restoration Update

May 6, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

Over the past couple of months, WarbirdsNews has been reporting on the efforts by Warriors & Warbirds in Monroe, North Carolina to return a Fairchild C-123K Provider named Ponderous Polly back to flying condition. As we have […]

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Let’s Help C-123 Provider “Ponderous Polly” Fly!

March 25, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 5

As WarbirdsNews reported in February, Warriors & Warbirds is making great progress with the restoration of their Fairchild C-123K Provider known as ‘Ponderous Polly’. The restoration team is currently working under difficult conditions though, as the aircraft […]

Ponderous Polly – Resurrection of a C-123 Provider

February 25, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

The Warriors & Warbirds flying collection in Monroe, North Carolina has been going for almost ten years now. They have become well known for their flying displays, including paratrooper drops, from a Curtiss C-46 Commando nicknamed “Tinker […]

Ponderous Polly

C-123 ‘Thunderpig’ Returning to Oshkosh in 2023

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