Fairchild XC-120 Packplane, Modified C-119 with detachable cargo pod

In 1948, the USAF requested Fairchild to develop a new transport airplane based on the C-119 Flying Boxcar, as the cargo or troops carriers with a better and quicker way to deliver cargo, or an air-deliverable field hospital. Fairchild submitted a proposal for the conversion of the C-119B from the production line into a new designed machine. The aircraft retained the original wing and empennage and added a revised cockpit and upper fuselage. Multiple pods of different sizes and shapes could be slung underneath the fuselage. The airframe was flyable with or without the detachable cargo pod. Contract for one prototype, XC-120 Packplane was signed. The first flight was made in 11 August 1950 with its pack and 29 August 1950 without its pack. It was found to be very unstable without the cargo pod. The sole prototype was eventually scrapped after extensively tested in the early 1950s