Douglas C-133 Cargomaster - Aircraft On Display

Aircraft On Display

• C-133A AF Ser. No. 56-2011 and 56-1998 were flown to the FAA Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. There, they were used in aircraft fire research. One remains there, while the other was scrapped in 2003.
• C-133A AF Ser. No. 56-2008 is preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. On 16 December 1958, this aircraft established a world record for propeller-driven aircraft by carrying a payload of 117,900 lb (53,479 kg) to an altitude of 10,000 ft (3,048 m). It was flown to the Museum on 17 March 1971.
• C-133A AF Ser. No. 56-2009 is at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum (ex-Chanute Air Force Base) in Rantoul, Illinois
• C-133B AF Ser. No. 59-0527 is in the collection of the Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.
• C-133B AF Ser. No. 59-0536 is located at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. This aircraft had been at the Strategic Air and Space Museum at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska for many years and was donated to the AMC Museum when the SAS Museum moved in the late 1990s to its new location.
• C-133B AF Ser. No. 59-0529 was at the New England Air Museum. However, a tornado swept through the museum in 1979, badly damaging many aircraft in the outdoor display collection, including the C-133.
• Two C-133As have been in storage at Mojave Air and Space Port, California, since the 1970s 35°03′56″N 118°08′32″W / 35.06556°N 118.14222°W / 35.06556; -118.14222 . They are N201AR (ex-AF Ser. No. 56-2001) and N136AR (ex- AF Ser. No.54-0136). They are owned by Cargomaster Corporation, based at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Alaska.
• Cargomaster Corporation also previously owned C-133A N199AB (ex-AF Ser. No. 56-1999). That aircraft was never certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration for civilian operation, and could only be flown as a government aircraft, mostly for the State of Alaska. N199AB was based at ANC and was flown as a transport until 2004, carrying cargo, such as pipeline sections. It also flew frontend loader trash trucks and heavy equipment to the Alaskan bush, i.e., Point Hope, Point Lay, Wainright, Barrow, Deadhorse, Barter Island, and Anatovich Pass in April 2006. In August 2008, it flew its last flight to the Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum at Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California, where it will be restored to USAF markings and maintained on static display.