Length: 15.75"

It was designed to carry cargo, litter patients and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute. The C-119 had the same major design feature as the C-82?a rear-loading, all-through cargo hold?but featured more- powerful engines and a relocation of the flight deck.

In an effort to speed production during the Korean War, Kaiser was chosen to establish a second assembly line (151 C- 119F/Gs built; 41 C-119Cs assembled) . The type saw extensive action in the Korean War, flying from bases in Japan. C-119s were also used to ferry supplies to the Arctic for construction of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line radar sites. Production ended in 1955.

A total of 68 C-119F/Gs were modified with an upward-hinged beaver-tail design cargo door and were redesignated C-119J.

A few C-119Js were specially modified for midair retrieval of capsules containing Corona program satellite imagery reentering the atmosphere. The first successful effort came on August 18, 1960, when a C-119 crew flying over the Pacific snagged the parachute lowering the Discoverer XIV imagery capsule returning from orbit at 8,000 feet altitude 360 miles southeast of Honolulu, Hawaii.