c133 cargomaster returned to flight status...true?

[w.a. manning]

airliners.net has a pic of N199AB with a caption that it's been
returned to flying status. does anyone have more info on this? that
would be a really amazing (and expensive) undertaking. iirc they only
made a few dozen of these in total. here's a link to the
pics/captions:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N199AB&distinct_entry=true

well...just googled that tail# and found this:

http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-133%20Cargomaster.htm

freakin' awesome - i wanna see that thing in flight!

[N329DF]

it is true, flying in Alaska,

[Kevin Brooks]

"w.a. manning" > wrote in message
om...
> airliners.net has a pic of N199AB with a caption that it's been
> returned to flying status. does anyone have more info on this? that
> would be a really amazing (and expensive) undertaking. iirc they only
> made a few dozen of these in total. here's a link to the
> pics/captions:
>
>
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N199AB&distinct_entry=true
>
> well...just googled that tail# and found this:
>
> http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-133%20Cargomaster.htm
>
> freakin' awesome - i wanna see that thing in flight!

Great post. I had no idea that any of the C-133's were still performing any
kind of service beyond the few that were lucky enough to make it to museums
instead of scrapyards. What next, a C-124 still flying cargo somewhere
similar? :-)

Brooks

[Jim Atkins]

Got to see one of these when I was a small child- they would fly into NAS
Miramar to pick up completed Atlas missiles from the (now gone) GD
Astronautics plant nearby. My dad was driving on old highway 395 off the
runway threshhold and we got overflown by a 133 coming in for a landing.
About shook the fillings out of your teeth- unforgettable.

--
Jim Atkins
Twentynine Palms, CA USA

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