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Description
| Manufacturer: | Convair | |
| Base model: | T-29 | |
| Designation: | T-29 | |
| Version: | A | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1948-Present | |
| Basic role: | Trainer | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Museum of Aviation | Warner Robins AFB | Georgia |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
| Sheppard AFB Air Park | Sheppard AFB | Texas |
| Strategic Air Command Museum | Ashland | Nebraska |
T-29A on display
Sheppard AFB Air Park | Strategic Air Command Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Bruce Wilson Sacramento, CA | I began my career as an Aviation Cadet at James Connaly AFB for the eleven month program During 1961-1962. During that time, I learned to navigate aboard the T-29. After graduation and commissioning, I became a Navigator-Instructor Bombardier at Mather AFB, Sacramento from 1962 to 1966. While at Mather, I served as the Route Planning Officer of the 3535th Navigator Training Wing, and a flying instructor. I taught aboard the T-29 all of that time, I logged a total of 1,200 hours performing duties such as celestial and dead reckoning navigation; high altitude and low level Bomb-Navigation training; ferrying high level officers cross country; testing training routes; vertical photography of targets; chart preparation, and other things. I would like to find any other navigator who spent that much time in them because I developed chronic Tinnitus from the screeching gyros, and wish to apply for my partial disability benefits from the VA for the hearing loss I have suffered throughout my years following my service. 07/12/2008 @ 02:55 [ref: 21842] |
| Ronald P Barrett 63-06 Holden, MO | I am a retired USAF Navigator-Bombardier (www.ronbarrett.com)& Air Force Navigators Bombardiers Association Historian (www.afnoa.org). Trained 63-06 Avcad James Connally AFB & 63-21 Radar-Nav-Bombardier Mather AFB. Trained UNT & NBT on T-29s. The T-29 was the greatest all around navigator trainer. There are a number around. The best restored is T-29 #00190 at the Strategic Air and Space Museum at Ashley Nebraska (use to be the ole'SAC Museum). Ref. www.strategicairandspace.com. Note;rear area of 190 has been stripped of all but one nav station in order to accommodate a classroom (gotta raise money somehow). See photos on www.convairt-29blogspot.com
The next best T-29 and really the overall best T-29 out there is Randolph AFB's #53-3489. Use to be up in-front-of base ops at Mather AFB. It is really all there! However 3489 sits-out in the sun and is really deteriorating badly inside. It needs a home inside a museum. Ref. photos by Mike Radowski on www.usaf-nav-history.com and JCAFB pictures on www.james-connally.org The third best T-29 is the one in the Hill AFB Museum. Hill is right now trying to restore this T-29. Please note that the National Museum of the USAF, at Wright-Patterson AFB does not have a T-29. They do have a C-131. Saying the C-131 is like the T-29 is like saying the B-29 is like the B-50! Only those not knowing airframes can make those kind of remarks. Note: there are no USAF navs on the NMUSAF's Museum staff either, or USAF pilots either. Ohh Myy. There are student nav and T-29 pictures also at www.avcads.com. Please contact me if you need history help on the T-29 there is more! Ron Barrett, USAF Ret., AFNOA Historian 305-797-0745 or e-m at ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com 07/02/2008 @ 14:13 [ref: 21748] |
| Ronald P Barrett 63-06 Holden, MO | I am a retired USAF Navigator-Bombardier (www.ronbarrett.com)& Air Force Navigators Bombardiers Association Historian (www.afnoa.org). Trained 63-06 Avcad James Connally AFB & 63-21 Radar-Nav-Bombardier Mather AFB. Trained UNT & NBT on T-29s. The T-29 was the greatest all around navigator trainer. There are a number around. The best restored is T-29 #00190 at the Strategic Air and Space Museum at Ashley Nebraska (use to be the ole'SAC Museum). Ref. www.strategicairandspace.com. Note;rear area of 190 has been stripped of all but one nav station in order to accommodate a classroom (gotta raise money somehow). See photos on www.convairt-29blogspot.com
The next best T-29 and really the overall best T-29 out there is Randolph AFB's #53-3489. Use to be up in-front-of base ops at Mather AFB. It is really all there! However 3489 sits-out in the sun and is really deteriorating badly inside. It needs a home inside a museum. Ref. photos by Mike Radowski on www.usaf-nav-history.com and JCAFB pictures on www.james-connally.org The third best T-29 is the one in the Hill AFB Museum. Hill is right now trying to restore this T-29. Please note that the National Museum of the USAF, at Wright-Patterson AFB does not have a T-29. They do have a C-131. Saying the C-131 is like the T-29 is like saying the B-29 is like the B-50! Only those not knowing airframes can make those kind of remarks. Note: there are no USAF navs on the NMUSAF's Museum staff either, or USAF pilots either. Ohh Myy. There are student nav and T-29 pictures also at www.avcads.com. Please contact me if you need history help on the T-29 there is more! Ron Barrett, USAF Ret., AFNOA Historian 305-797-0745 or e-m at ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com 07/02/2008 @ 14:13 [ref: 21747] |
| Chuck Salge Weslaco, TX | I went through UNT in 1972-3 at Mather. I remember the T-29 well. I lived in the BOQ next door to one of the "29 drivers", Lt. Sam Musgrave. I was present when someone wandered onto the runway at McClellan and was hit by a T-29 on takeoff roll. The aircraft was one of several Mather birds which had been diverted to McClellan the previous day for crosswinds. I was aboard the T-29 next in line for takeoff and had to wait on the ramp for several hours while the incident was sorted out. I think it was ruled a suicide.
04/11/2008 @ 16:52 [ref: 20478] |
| William W. Weems Nashville, TN | It appears I typed "Aero Dog" instead of "Aero Dogs" for the name of the hot dog stand that now utiizes the gutted shell of a T-29A, and that is why my E-mail challenger had a hard time looking it up on the net. But it has been in business at 240 North "L" Street in Tulare, CA for four years now, and there are interesting pictures of it on the web. 11/05/2007 @ 18:48 [ref: 18415] |
| William W. Weems Nashville, TN | I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears the musuem at Warner Robins AFB has disposed of its T-29A, and according to aviation magazines the airframe was partially scrapped. The fuselage has been converted into a hot dog stand in California; that business is named "Aero Dog". 11/05/2007 @ 17:48 [ref: 18412] |
| Jim Larsen San Jose, CA | I crewed one of the first T-29's assigned to Mather AFB and I think it was in 1950. I flew many of the round robin missions for Navigator training. The picture I submitted is the air craft that I crewed. I loved the airplane and knew it pretty well. I was transferred to Harlingen AFB when it was opened because I had the Flight Maint. Tech. MOS and they said I was badly needed. I flew several missions at Harlingen with the Cadets but my extended 2nd hitch ended in December 1952 as the Korean War was winding down. I ended up working for Pan American Air Lines and then United Airlines in 1955 where I worked on Covair 340s. 10/26/2007 @ 15:02 [ref: 18308] |
| Ron Barrett, USAF Ret Nav Holden, MO | Help! The Air Force Navigators Observers Association (www.afnoa.org) needs your help in recording the history of the T-29 as used in the USAF navigator training programs. Please post your story and/or let us publish it in the AFNOA DR-Ahead quarterly news letter.
As the AFNOA Historian I am compiling all that we can on the USAF T-29s and various types of navs trained in them (Navs, NavBombardiers, EWOs, WSOs, ect, etc). The National Museum of the USAF does not even haver a T-29 in its collection. The T-29 was the most used Nav-trainer in the USAF's history! E-mail me at ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com or call me at (305)797-0745. All of what we compile goes to the USAF History & Museums Programs and to the USAF Historical Research Agency at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Thank you for your help. DR'n away..... Ron Barrett, USAF Ret Nav 09/06/2007 @ 10:21 [ref: 17852] |
| Fred Thessing Conway, AR | I am a T-29 veteran having flown it for 188 hours as part of UNT Class 74-04. We started in January and finished in August of 1973. I wanted fighters after graduation but it was off to NBT and then SAC, the B-52, and Arclite. Both great airplanes in their own way.
I was in NBT when the first T-43 arrived at Mather AFB. I remember that a big arrival/welcome ceremony was put on that day. I ended up flying the F-4c in the Air Guard but I still remeber my T-29 days and doing the "wings and engines" check after takeoff and almost having a "mid-air" collision with a Navy A-4 just north of Bakersfield, CA. Fly safe! 07/17/2007 @ 08:15 [ref: 17149] |
| Lt Col Dave Moore (RET.) , CT | I flew T-29s as a second looie right out of pilot training in 1972 I flew tails number 52-1108 and 51-5137 out of Hancock Field, new York and eventually flew 1108 to the boneyard in 1975. I will always have very fond memories of that care-free period of my life. I can name names and tell a lot of stories. Thanks for reading this. 05/02/2007 @ 13:20 [ref: 16375] |
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