User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:22:22 AM EDT
CASA C-41
C-145 
C-146 
The C-145 and 146s are based out of Cannon AFB and Duke Field while the C-41 is a bit more interesting in that "officially" there is no record of them. All three are AFSOC birds |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:23:51 AM EDT
[#1]
They look like Choad birds.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:25:27 AM EDT
[#2]
I may have seen some of those deployed.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:27:17 AM EDT
[#3]
AFSOC still does some foreign flight training, that's probably what they are for. Heck if I recall corrrectly one of the squadrons had a C-47 on the books until a few years ago.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:27:27 AM EDT
[#4]
I've jumped out of the CASA two times.
They make a great ramp jump. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:28:25 AM EDT
[#5]
C-41 "short bus" is for the Special, Special Forces.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:28:46 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I may have seen some of those deployed. Same. I may have pooped in their hangar too. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:33:41 AM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I may have seen some of those deployed. As have I The C-41 resulted in a C-130 navigator almost getting his digital camera confiscated when his dumbass took a picture of it 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:44:12 AM EDT
[#8]
I didn't see them at some place I never was.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:45:15 AM EDT
[#9]
Even lesser known historical aircraft that saw limited use
Budd Conestoga,made of welded stainless steel rather than aluminum. Not a success but the first high wing,rear ramp transport. 
Northrop C-125 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:47:01 AM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I've jumped out of the CASA two times. They make a great ramp jump. are you sure it wasn't a sherpa? Much more common. As in you can actually schedule them and get them. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:47:24 AM EDT
[#11]
Blackwater CASA in Afghanistan
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:47:36 AM EDT
[#12]
I've heard of all of them, but I was in the Air Force, so I had an unfair advantage
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:50:11 AM EDT
[#13]
All are civil commercial types.
Does the military buy Commercial Off The Shelf aircraft? Apparently sometimes. Did you know that Lockheed sells civil registered versions of the C-130 called the L-100? And, sometimes foreign militaries buy them. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:52:40 AM EDT
[#14]
Carolina Sky Sports had two Casa'a that would make the Boogie circuit every year.
We had both of them at the Mardi Gras Boogie at Gold Coast in '04. Jumped them again in Dublin in '05. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:55:17 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
are you sure it wasn't a sherpa? Much more common. As in you can actually schedule them and get them. http://www.combataircraft.com/aircraft/cc23_p_03_l.jpg 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 10:58:00 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryHeh - is it just me, or does that plane look like someone flipped the fuselage over on a Ju-52? |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 11:02:10 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I puked on a Sherpa in late 2004 going from Balad to Kirkuk. 100+° weather and 50' AGL was not fun. flew on them in AK a lot. Whenever we flew over the AK range, I passed out. I was glad to see the pilots on O2. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 11:04:57 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
are you sure it wasn't a sherpa? Much more common. As in you can actually schedule them and get them. http://www.combataircraft.com/aircraft/cc23_p_03_l.jpg There are no Sherpas being used as sport skydiving planes that I have ever heard of. There are a few CASA 212s used for skydiving. A few hauling Cargo in Alaska too. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 11:11:21 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
There are no Sherpas being used as sport skydiving planes that I have ever heard of. There are a few CASA 212s used for skydiving. A few hauling Cargo in Alaska too. I assumed Doublez (being a former paratrooper) was talking about military jumps. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 11:14:01 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Heh - is it just me, or does that plane look like someone flipped the fuselage over on a Ju-52? First thing I thought of when I saw it. BTW, very close to the Ford Trimotor too. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 11:42:18 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I assumed Doublez (being a former paratrooper) was talking about military jumps. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
There are no Sherpas being used as sport skydiving planes that I have ever heard of. There are a few CASA 212s used for skydiving. A few hauling Cargo in Alaska too. I assumed Doublez (being a former paratrooper) was talking about military jumps. Could be. As I recall Carolina Sky Sports also did (may still) do contract work at one of the MIL bases in NC. I few another DZs Caravan at CSS in Louisburg one weekend years ago because all their planes were busy elsewhere. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 12:19:16 PM EDT
[#22]
There was an original poster that had every single aircraft the Air Force owned hung on the web (including the unique low-density/small fleet aircraft).
It seems the original-sized graphic is gone, but here's a low-res snap-shot: 
The CASA-212s aren't all Air Force, and there are still some Twin Otters out there: 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 12:25:56 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Even lesser known historical aircraft that saw limited use Budd Conestoga,made of welded stainless steel rather than aluminum. Not a success but the first high wing,rear ramp transport. http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/usa/budd_conestoga_1.jpg Northrop C-125 http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acimages/northrop_yc125b_48622_kp.jpg Stainless Steel! Bet that was a heavy bitch! I've seen that exact C-125 many many times in person... It's at the USAF Museum in Dayton OH, I just never knew is was an oddball. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 12:33:12 PM EDT
[#24]
how about lesser known aircraft in the Marines?
F4D Skyray 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 12:45:07 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I've jumped out of the CASA two times. They make a great ramp jump. Yes they do! But Ive never jumped an actual AF Casa 212, always from Evergreen or some other "Contract Company" |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 12:46:26 PM EDT
[#26]
E-9A Widget
2 of them in service. Mike |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:02:35 PM EDT
[#27]
How about the Voodoo?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:02:59 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryAn absolute peach of an airplane and one of my favorites from that period. My opinion is based on the fact that I never had to land one. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:04:18 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
E-9A Widget https://media.defense.gov/2008/Oct/01/2000674888/670/394/0/080826-F-5040D-341.JPG 2 of them in service. Mike There used to be a lot of factories that made those. Both economics and math classes throughout the mid 20th century would frequently use those aircraft in equations when discussing large numbers produced. I seem to remember they were to be replaced with the E-11B-2 Mk 11* Series 2 Boondoggle, in which the government began buying $1000 toilet seats for the rear of the craft but never actually produced an aircraft, even after 15 years of spending hundreds of millions of dollars. As there was no domestically available replacement for the E-9A, military procurement looked to allied countries and businesses, first looking at Embraer for a craft that could replace them, then finally settling on the cooperatively produced Boeing-AeroMex craft that entered service as the E-13 Chingadera. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:12:27 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Carolina Sky Sports had two Casa'a that would make the Boogie circuit every year. We had both of them at the Mardi Gras Boogie at Gold Coast in '04. Jumped them again in Dublin in '05. I've done hundreds of drops out of the Casa's at Carolina Sky Sports when I ran drop test ops for a parachute company I used to work for. Items as light as 20 pounds all the way up to 1800 pounds. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:14:18 PM EDT
[#31]
Martin B-57 Canberra.
(Might be lesser known, but it is probably well known to you guys.) |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:16:45 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryNicknamed the Ford. Air & Space magazine did a feature on it, and that aircraft had its share of problems, to say the least. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:17:36 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Martin B-57 Canberra. (Might be lesser known, but it is probably well known to you guys.) One has to dig deep to get one around here. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:19:18 PM EDT
[#34]
Two years ago the C-145 was here where I live for about 6 months in the late winter and early spring.
The crews changed constantly during that time, and were always younger guys who were quiet, had short haircuts, and stayed to themselves. I talked to a few of them since I patrolled the local airport at the time for the local P.D. They were always friendly and we had coffee a few times. They were taking back country flying training from one of our local instructor pilots. The terrain where I live in Idaho apparently resembles some of the deep canyons in Afghanistan and has some pretty rough remote and very short airstrips. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:21:23 PM EDT
[#35]
C145 looks neat
Wonder what type of load it could carry |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:23:30 PM EDT
[#36]
Made lots of freefall jumps out of the C-41, its a good bird.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:30:18 PM EDT
[#37]
Alenia C-27J Spartan, taxpayers paid $567 million on 21, which the USAF sent right to the boneyard:
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:35:58 PM EDT
[#38]
Not all of them.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 1:45:04 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
are you sure it wasn't a sherpa? Much more common. As in you can actually schedule them and get them. http://www.combataircraft.com/aircraft/cc23_p_03_l.jpg |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 2:58:23 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Alenia C-27J Spartan, taxpayers paid $567 million on 21, which the USAF sent right to the boneyard: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/FRBR_160716_Spartan_01.jpg/1024px-FRBR_160716_Spartan_01.jpg 7 were transferred to SOCOM and 14 went to the Coast Guard, budget cuts was the official reason, but I'm betting that was the plan all along. I'm thinking SOCOM wanted some and by getting other agency in on it they were allowed a "group" buy so to speak. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 3:00:12 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Made lots of freefall jumps out of the C-41, its a good bird. Civilian bird or USAF bird? |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 3:13:02 PM EDT
[#42]
I got to fly on a C-146 twice and a guy sitting behind me had a jump in a C-41.
The C-145 is a new one to me though. Thanks for posting this OP |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 3:17:25 PM EDT
[#43]
Only ever saw that airplane fly out of Duke Field, 3 times. Once they even shut all the lights off along the taxiway. No idea why, it was 2am, there were but 5 souls on the base. ATC, Gate, myself and my alpha and the guy sitting on the ramp.
Hurlburt had some interesting things flying over the island at night. Things picked up when they got Ospreys. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 3:22:46 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I puked on a Sherpa in late 2004 going from Balad to Kirkuk. 100+° weather and 50' AGL was not fun. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
are you sure it wasn't a sherpa? Much more common. As in you can actually schedule them and get them. http://www.combataircraft.com/aircraft/cc23_p_03_l.jpg You ain't the only one. Lots of guys were puking on our flights.
Aviator |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 3:23:29 PM EDT
[#45]
3 tours. Lots of circles.... |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 3:48:19 PM EDT
[#46]
Lots of jumps out of CASA 212s at Bragg at St Mere. Fun ramp jumps for sure.
Also did some LCLA Bundle drops with CASAs in the Ghan. Exciting trips for sure. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 4:00:02 PM EDT
[#47]
Boeing C-32B. . .
Nothing to see here really... Just your run of the mill military Boeing 757 in a low-profile all-white paint-scheme. Well, there is at least this one thing... 
 C-132 refueling |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 4:02:01 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Boeing C-32B. . . https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7469/16213682191_91b40aff07.jpg Nothing to see here really... Just your run of the mill military Boeing 757 in a low-profile all-white paint-scheme. Well, there is at least this one thing...
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0XVjOG7EbgNeat. I wonder if that'd be any more difficult than regular in flight refueling due to scale of the planes involved. |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 4:19:46 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7529/15693736460_3420a9f594_z.jpg 3 tours. Lots of circles.... What's the back story on this sucker? |
|
|
|
Posted: 2/22/2017 4:20:24 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Boeing C-32B. . . https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7469/16213682191_91b40aff07.jpg Nothing to see here really... Just your run of the mill military Boeing 757 in a low-profile all-white paint-scheme. Well, there is at least this one thing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0XVjOG7EbgInteresting |
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
