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English: A U.S. Air Force Stroukoff YC-123E-SA Provider (s/n 55-4031, originally 54-554) fitted with a pantobase landing gear taking off from the Delaware River off the U.S. Navy Naval Air Auxiliary Facility Philadelphia in 1955. The YC-123E was also equipped with a conventional landing gear. Pilots: Roy Peltz, Buck Atkinson
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Source U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News December 1955 [1] , p. 33.
Author USN

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