geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) (08/05/90)
From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) From: dps@otter.hpl.hp.com (Duncan Smith) >Speaking of C- types, could someone (Mentioning no names!) post some info on >the new (ie post '62) cargo/transport sequence? The recent designations have >come thick and fast and I've lost track. ----- I've never seen a really comprehensive, up-to-date reference for transport aircraft designations, so rather than wait for someone to cite a reference that probably doesn't exist, I'll submit what I can from memory. Geoff ----- //// ----- Here are the most recent ones (since the numbering sequence was restarted at 1): C-1: Trader (Grumman) COD version of the S-2 Tracker. C-2: Greyhound (Grumman). COD aircraft developed from the E-2. C-3: ??? C-4: Gulfstream I (Grumman). C-5: Galaxy (Lockheed) C-6: Caribou (DeHavilland Canada) C-7: Buffalo (DeHavilland Canada) C-8: ??? C-9: Nightingale. (Medevac DC-9) (K)C-10: Extender. Tanker/transport adaptation of the DC-10. (V)C-11: Gulfstream II (Grumman/Gulfstream American) C-12: Beechcraft King Air. C-13: ??? (Y)C-14: Boeing contender in the AMST (Advanced Medium STOL Transport) design competition in the mid-Seventies. (Y)C-15: McDonnell-Douglas AMST contender. C-16: ??? C-17: New McDonnell-Douglas Air Force transport, under development. C-22: USAF Boeing 727. As far as I know, that's as far as it goes at this point. ----- ----- Here are the other reasonably modern (i.e., postwar) transport designations that I know of. The gaps are presumably designs that never made it into production. C-54: Douglas Cargomaster (military DC-4) C-74: Globemaster (Douglas). The original Globemaster, later to evolve into the C-124. C-87: Packet (Fairchild) Remember _Flight of the Phoenix_? C-99: Huge transport development of the Convair B-36. Only one was built, retired in 1957 after limited use. Now languishing at Kelley AFB. C-118: Douglas Liftmaster (military DC-6A) C-119: Flying Boxcar (Fairchild). C-121: Lockheed Super Constellation. C-123: Provider (Fairchild) C-124: Globemaster (Douglas) C-130: Lockheed Hercules C-131: Convair Samaritan (military CV-240) C-133: Cargomaster (Douglas) C-135: Stratoliner (Boeing) There was originally a transport version (with windows) as well as the KC-135 tanker version. All were eventually converted to tankers or EC/RC-135 intelligence aircraft. (V)C-137: Air Force One. Military VIP version of the Boeing 707-320B. C-140: Lockheed Jetstar. C-141: Lockheed StarLifter. (X)C-142: Experimental Ryan VTOL transport. As far as I know, that's the highest that the numbers ever got for transports.
sxdjt@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (TABOR DEAN J) (08/08/90)
From: sxdjt@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (TABOR DEAN J) Don't forget the C-21 (a spiffy little Lear (?))