Douglas C-133

Douglas C-133 Cargomaster
US Air Force C-133B
Type:	Transport plane
Design country:	United States
Manufacturer:	Douglas Aircraft Company
First flight:	April 23, 1956
Commissioning:	1957
Production time:	1956 to 1961
Number of pieces:	50

A C-133 Cargomaster during loading or unloading

The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster was an aircraft of the Douglas Aircraft Company and immediately went into production as a serial machine without a prototype having been built beforehand. The first flight took place on April 23, 1956. From 1956 to 1961, 50 of the shoulder -wing aircraft with four turboprop engines (35 C-133A and 15 C-133B) were built and used by the US Air Force  - among other things for the transport of the Thor medium-range missile  - and NASA . The machine was in service until 1971. The last flight of a Cargomaster (N199AB, ex 56-1999) took place on August 30, 2008.

Note: The name "Cargomaster" also bears a single-engine aircraft from Cessna; see Cessna 208 .

The cargo area of ​​a C-133 Cargomaster, seen from the rear

production

Acceptance of the C-133 by the USAF:

version	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	TOTAL	PRICE
C-133A	4th	10	11	10			35	$ 9,781,680
C-133B				1	12	2	15th	$ 6,596,667
TOTAL	4th	10	11	11	12	2	50

3 C-133A were converted to version B.

Incidents

From 1956 until the end of its mission in 1971, the USAF, the only operator of this type, suffered 10 total losses of the C-133. 55 people were killed in 8 of them.

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
crew	10
length	48.00 m
span	54.76 m
height	14.70 m
Wing area	248.34 m²
Empty mass	49,631 kg
Takeoff mass	125,000 kg
payload	up to 200 passengers or 36 t
drive	four Pratt & Whitney T34-P-7WA turboprop engines with 6500 hp each
Top speed	578 km / h
Cruising speed	519 km / h
Service ceiling	5800 m
normal range	6400 km

See also

• List of aircraft types

Web links

Commons : Douglas C-133 Cargomaster  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Brief description on Boeing.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical Digest of the USAF 1956, p. 91; 1957, p. 97; 1958, p. 72, p. 83 f .; 1959, p. 68; 1960, p. 62; 1961, p. 70, p. 79 f.
2. ↑ Statistical Digest of the USAF 1961, pp. 92 ff.
3. ^ Accident statistics Douglas C-133 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 24, 2017.