Roden 335 Douglas C-133B Cargomaster 1:144

In 1952, procurement of a new type for the Military Air Transport Service was announced in the United States under the SS402L Logistics Carrier Support Program. According to its requirements, the aircraft would have to lift more than 45 tons, including oversized items.

The Douglas Aircraft Company, which has a long history of supplying transport aircraft to the military, proposed two projects, the C-132 and the C-133. The C-132 was rejected due to a number of technical problems, and the C-133 immediately received an order for a preliminary batch of 12 machines, even without building a prototype for testing. Construction of the first aircraft began at the end of 1953, and on April 23, 1956, the first test flight of the new giant took place. After a few shortcomings were eliminated, the C-133 went into series production, officially named the Cargomaster, and as early as August 1957, the 39th Transportation Brigade at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was the first to receive a production aircraft, while the next machine of this type was delivered to the 84th Brigade based at McCord.