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Description
| Manufacturer: | Douglas | |
| Base model: | C-133 | |
| Designation: | C-133 | |
| Version: | B | |
| Nickname: | Cargomaster | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1925-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
| Strategic Air Command Museum | Ashland | Nebraska |
C-133B on display
Pima Air & Space Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Robert Ginn Tucson,, AZ | The C-133 was a good airplane for a pilot, but a maintainers nightmare, as I recall. It developed a bad reputation from the first, but, thanks TO the maintainers, it did a great job. I flew the "A", then the "B" at Dover from 1958 through 1962. Hats off to all you guys. 07/31/2008 @ 08:00 [ref: 22310] |
| Carl Trautman sunnyvale, CA | I was the crew chief 90536 in 67'.
She had a writeup saying she wouldn't hold pressurization. Never made sense to me why you guys wanted to fly under pressure, But, It was spec, So. I changed the side door seal, crew door seal, clambshell door seals, tank sealed all cracks and gaps in the nose wheel well and put bolts with 'O ring's in the jack pad bolt holes. I had an AR guy come out and assist in pressure checking the ACFT. This was summer and It took almost 45 minutes to take it to 6.55" He said he had never seen one make it on the ground in summer and we should check further. We switched port caps and went to 6.88" on the ground in the summer on two GTU's. Man it got HOT in there. That was one tight ACFT, Till it flew a couple of times. '4 years of fun in the FORCE'. 07/04/2007 @ 10:23 [ref: 17011] |
| Carl Trautman sunnyvale, CA | I was the crew chief 90536 in 67'.
She was sitting on the ramp essentially dead, cannonballed. No alternators in supply. I told the TECH sarg. that I didn't believe there were none in supply and we should do a Physical Inventory. He said OK, he set it up and we went to supply. They said the computer showed NIS(not I Stock). We went to the bin location and found a little box which was of course empty, BUT, under it was an IBM card which said BULK LOCATION. We went there and found 250 of them stacked on Pallets. Suddenly Travis had Generator and Alternators again. This was a bulk location for all of them. It was '4 years of fun in the FORCE'. 07/04/2007 @ 10:09 [ref: 17010] |
| Carl Trautman sunnyvale, CA | I loved that aircraft, It was the only one I ever had.
I joined the 601 OMS in DEC 64' and actually processed in by jan 65' The first night (grave shift) the crew chief sent me in to the supply area for a 'Bucket of Prop wash' and '150 Yds of flight line'. I hit the coffee shop, doughnut shop, Machine shop, sheet metal, prop shop, and the whole flight line from terminal to hangar 810. I really met everywhere there was and most of the people to know in all of the shops in a 4 hour period that night. Then back to the coffee shop where the rest of the crew was searching for me. They thought I got nabbed by security. They never sent me looking for anything again. I was the crew chief of 90536 when I left. I was so proud to have MY name in the forms. 07/04/2007 @ 09:55 [ref: 17009] |
| Clovis Rudd Adrian, MI | In 1965 I was stationed in Hawaii in VR-21 as Flight Mech on C-118Bs. We were on a flight to Wake Island and were about five miles out and at night when all of a sudden we saw an explosion and a fire appearing to come from the fuel farm or runway area. When our Aircraft Commander called in to see what was burning they told us that a C-133 had crashed off the end of the runway and we would have to hold. We did not have fuel to hold so they had us come in over the fire and when we landed we were told that it may have been sabotage but we had to keep someone with our aircraft while it was on the ground. I was First Flight Mechanic so I stayed and refueled and watched over our aircraft. We left 1.5 hours later and I have never been able to find out what caused that crash. That was a particularly unusual westpac flight because of that crash, and all the other occurrances that happened. We had to shut down #3 engine an hour out of Barbers Point and return for an engine change, then the tower caught fire in Agana, Guam, we had a near miss with a PAL 707 coming out of Cubi Point, PI and then the barracks in Itazuke, Japan caught fire and our VP squadron that we were taking back to Barbers Point wore varying pieces of uniforms which was all they had to their names. 03/17/2007 @ 06:33 [ref: 15918] |
| Ken Swick , IL | I was a Loadmaster in the 84th ATS from October 1961 until December of 1963. I remember the C-133B as an easy plane to load and unload, as well as being more versital than it was given credit. My loads ranged from foot lockers to ICBMs.
I also flew for 3 month out of Dover on A's. Tell the truth after 45 years I can't remember if it was the 1st or the 39th, I think the 39th. The plane had its problems, but boy it sure filled a needed nitch in air transport at the time. 02/15/2007 @ 11:20 [ref: 15534] |
| Ken Swick , IL | I was a Loadmaster in the 84th ATS from October 1961 until December of 1963. I remember the C-133B as an easy plane to load and unload, as well as being more versital than it was given credit. My loads ranged from foot lockers to ICBMs.
I also flew for 3 month out of Dover on A's. Tell the truth after 45 years I can't remember if it was the 1st or the 39th, I think the 39th. The plane had its problems, but boy it sure filled a needed nitch in air transport at the time. 02/15/2007 @ 11:20 [ref: 15533] |
| Ken Swick , IL | I was a Loadmaster in the 84th ATS from October 1961 until December of 1963. I remember the C-133B as an easy plane to load and unload, as well as being more versital than it was given credit. My loads ranged from foot lockers to ICBMs.
I also flew for 3 month out of Dover on A's. Tell the truth after 45 years I can't remember if it was the 1st or the 39th, I think the 39th. The plane had its problems, but boy it sure filled a needed nitch in air transport at the time. 02/15/2007 @ 11:20 [ref: 15532] |
| Ken Swick , IL | I was a Loadmaster in the 84th ATS from October 1961 until December of 1963. I remember the C-133B as an easy plane to load and unload, as well as being more versital than it was given credit. My loads ranged from foot lockers to ICBMs.
I also flew for 3 month out of Dover on A's. Tell the truth after 45 years I can't remember if it was the 1st or the 39th, I think the 39th. The plane had its problems, but boy it sure filled a needed nitch in air transport at the time. 02/15/2007 @ 11:20 [ref: 15531] |
| Ken Swick , IL | I was a Loadmaster in the 84th ATS from October 1961 until December of 1963. I remember the C-133B as an easy plane to load and unload, as well as being more versital than it was given credit. My loads ranged from foot lockers to ICBMs.
I also flew for 3 month out of Dover on A's. Tell the truth after 45 years I can't remember if it was the 1st or the 39th, I think the 39th. The plane had its problems, but boy it sure filled a needed nitch in air transport at the time. 02/15/2007 @ 11:20 [ref: 15530] |
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