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United States military transport aircraft by decade of first flight 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s • 2020s
United States Military Sea Transportation Service: Cape Esperance: Casablanca-class aircraft transport CVE-88 Placed in service from United States Navy reserve 28 August United States Navy: Princeton: Essex-class aircraft carrier CV-37 12 September United States Navy: Bairoko: Commencement Bay-class escort carrier CVE-115 Recommissioning from ...
The 142 registered irregular carriers had a total of 356 Douglas DC-3, DC-4 and Curtiss C-46 aircraft [20] between them, compared to over 1000 transport aircraft in domestic service and international service by scheduled operators, whose fleets also included some more modern types, e.g. Lockheed Constellations, Martin 2-0-2s, DC-6s and Convair ...
The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, nicknamed "Old Shaky", is an American heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.. The C-124 was the primary heavy-lift transport for United States Air Force (USAF) Military Air Transport Service (MATS) during the 1950s and early 1960s, until the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter entered service.
Civil aircraft of the 1950s. Agricultural • Business • Cargo • Sailplanes • Sports • Trainer • Utility Military aircraft of the 1950s. Anti-submarine • Attack • Bomber • Fighter • Patrol • Reconnaissance • Rescue • Tanker • Trainer • Transport • Utility Miscellaneous aircraft of the 1950s
The Boeing C-135 Stratolifter is a transport aircraft derived from the prototype Boeing 367-80 jet airliner [3] (also the basis for the 707) in the early 1950s. It has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707. Boeing gave the aircraft the internal designation of Model 717, [4] a name later assigned to a completely different aircraft.
December 3 – The carrier aircraft of U.S. Navy Task Force 77 are tasked solely with support to United Nations ground forces in northern Korea retreating in the face of the Chinese offensive toward an evacuation at Hungnam, flying reconnaissance missions, attacking Chinese positions, and escorting military transport aircraft flying supplies ...
The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) is an inactive Department of Defense Unified Command. Activated on 1 June 1948, MATS was a consolidation of the United States Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force's Air Transport Command (ATC) into a single joint command.