Fairchild C-123 Provider

1953


TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT	Virtual Aircraft Museum / USA / Fairchild

The C-123 troop and cargo transport was designed by the original Chase Aircraft Company. A production order for 300 C-123B, held by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation (which had acquired a majority interest in the Chase company in 1953), was cancelled in June 1953. New bids were asked for, as a result of which production of the C-123B was assigned to Fairchild. The first Fairchild-built C-123B flew on 1 September 1954 and production aircraft entered service with the USAF's 309th Troop Carrier Group in July 1955. Orders totalling more than 300 aircraft were completed by mid-1958, six going to Saudi Arabia and 18 to Venezuela.

In 1955 the prototype C-123B was fitted experimentally with two Fairchild J44 turbojet engines mounted at the wingtips to provide auxiliary power for use in an emergency. As a result ten production aircraft were modified into C-123J with turbojet engines fitted. Meanwhile a small number of C-123H had been produced with wide-track landing gears.

The prototype YC-123H was later experimentally fitted with CJ610 auxiliary turbojet engines and flown on 30 July 1962. Having been tested in South Vietnam as a counter-insurgency aircraft, 183 more C-123B were given 12.68kN General Electric J85-GE-17 auxiliary turbojet engines in underwing pods and designated C-123K. Some were further converted to AC-123K Spectre gunships for service during the Vietnam conflict.

Specification

CREW	2
ENGINE	2 x P+W R-2800-99W, 1840kW
WEIGHTS
Take-off weight	27240 kg	60054 lb
Empty weight	14100 kg	31085 lb
DIMENSIONS
Wingspan	33.6 m	110 ft 3 in
Length	23.3 m	76 ft 5 in
Height	10.4 m	34 ft 1 in
Wing area	113.6 m²	1222.78 sq ft
PERFORMANCE
Max. speed	392 km/h	244 mph
Ceiling	7000 m	22950 ft
Range w/max.fuel	2350 km	1460 miles

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Dave Gagnon, e-mail, 29.11.2023 17:07

I worked on these tubs while in the 901 Cams at Westover AFB. I understood, at the time, that they were originally designed as gliders during WWII, but were not airworthy enough for the task. Later they had the 16 piston reciprocal engines added to retrofit as a cargo hog. Still not good enough to get off the ground they had the booster jet engines added. That being said, they could not be pressurized and when it was raining outside it also rained inside the aircraft. The engines leaked so much oil that the planes had to go to the wash rack after flights to wash the oil off of the engine nacelles. I used to grab a lift in the hanger and actually get into the nacelles to do routine maintenance. Their was always, invariably, an 18" puddle of oil inside the bottom of said compartment in which I would always, invariably, drop a tool into and have to fish it out by hand. Real hogs, but I preferred them over the C5's that I had to work on later.

JOSEPH WALSH, e-mail, 23.02.2024

Dave Gagnon

HELLO,DAVE GOOD MORNING THESE OLD WAR BIRDS BRING BACK SOME GOOD TIMES WHEN I WORKED WITH THE US AIR FORCE 95TH STRATIGIC AIR COMMAND GOOSE AIR BASE IN LABRADOR ,CANADA. WE HAD A FLEET OF 30 KC97 STRATO FUEL TANKERS AND DURING THAT TIME IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES AIR AMERICA MADE A FEW TRIPS BACK FROM VIETNAM AND STOPPED AT THE BASE AND I DONE ENGINE REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENT FOR THEM OF THE OLD P&W R2800 18 CYL ENGINES I CAN STILL REMEMBER THE SOUNDS OF THE OLD PRATTS STRATING UP AT THE BASE IN LATE AUGUST WHEN AT TIMES IN LABRADOR IT WAS COLD -5 BELOW AND THE CYLINDERS WOULD GET SHOCKED COOLED AND CRACK WITH THE TEMPERATURE VARIATION I LIKED THE OLD C123 PROVIDER DAVE IT HAD ISSUES BUT I STILL LOVED THE OLD BIRD IT WAS SIMPLER TIMES BACK THEN DAVE AVIATION IS NOT THE SAME TODAY I MISS THE RADIAL ENGINE DAYS. TAKE CARE DAVE ALL THE BEST JOE WALSH

Dewey Oliver, e-mail, 13.02.2022 15:20
I dicisemdled the first yc-123 h in a Cotten field in South Carolina after it crash landed on a test run
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Jon Hemp, e-mail, 07.05.2022

Dewey Oliver

Dewey, I've got a work-in-progress project /catalogue on the Provider. Any details on your dis-assembly of the YC would be very much valued and appreciated.

ED LAUGHARY@gmail . Com, 27.07.2023

Jon Hemp

Today is Thurs. JULY 27,2023! My Crew lost the YC-123 w /J85 Jet Engines to assist in Shortfield TAKEO, as the Nose Gear collapsed under the steel deck after striking a 6” steel spike on initial touchdown on the PAP( aluminum), affecting the entire airframe, delivering 2
Army 7500 lbs each, increasing the pay load from 5000x 3, allowing a total of 15,000 lbs, if it were not for lone vertical steel shaft left exposed after iniating a perfec landing. By use of the entire runway, endangering the entire crew, plus maintenance personnel ! The cockpit was totally cracked in half, exposing the remains runway ahead. The large heavy NAVIGATORS WAS BLOWN VERTICALLY AND COMPLETELY THROUGH THE ASTRODOME, unfound.
As the NAVIGATOR ON THIS LANDING DESTRUCTION, I barely escaped Death by SECONDS, wishing I had a copy of the photos to reveal the unbelieveable wreckage, within inches, less than a foot, and NOT a SCRATCH!, spared by GOD ALMIGHTY!!! MY 2 pilots were certain I was under the mass pile of twisted iron, as I had taken the firs web seat(forward)next to the twisted exit door finally hanging within inches of my body!!!! I literally pushed it out of the doorway, and exited the aircraft which was bleeding every used liquid From every possible crevice, and ran well distanced from the totaled
craft after I had assured my pilots declared safe!!!

Please help me locate the pictures! At 90 yrs. Of age, I really’d like to have the pic
Please call ED LAUGHARY(mesa, AZ
480-580-9345! Signed GRATEFUL!!

Ed Laughary, e-mail, 28.07.2023

ED LAUGHARY@gmail . Com

The collapsed Gear Story of July 27 2023
The occurred in support of SWIFTSTRIKE III IN MID SUMMER OF 1963, on a PAP RUNWAY approx. 15 miles southwest of LAURINBERG-MAXTON Airfield , North Carolina!
The YC-123 was classed 26 as it SAT! I have exhausted the limit of AVAILABLE PHOTOGRAPHY!!
Iam 90 years young, and would be so grateful if I could procure a set of pics that
Reveal the undisturbed wreckage!!
Call me if you can assist in any way !

Ed Laughary, e-mail, 28.07.2023

ED LAUGHARY@gmail . Com

Dewey Oliver, e-mail, 13.02.2022 15:20
I dicisemdled the first yc-123 h in a Cotten field in South Carolina after it crash landed on a test run
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Olton Gaines, e-mail, 05.11.2021 21:34
i flew with the 309 air commando sq as flt engineer where only 2 blacks were flt eng richard gaines olton l gaines both instructor fe 65 67 997 sorties
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aaouellettte@sbcglobal.net, 14.03.2021 22:19
I was assigned to the 19th Air Commando Sq very early 1965. We did it all including spray agent orange. 665 combat air missions.
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nam54259flebno, e-mail, 27.05.2021