A Walk Through Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum

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Жыл бұрын

This video is one of five museum visits I made while in the San Francisco Bay area in the days predeeding my Train Odyssey 7.
In this video, I visit the Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum, located near Fairfield, California.
The other museums are Castle Air Museum, Moffett Field in Mountain View, Oakland Aviation Museum, and the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
My intention in producing these 'museum walk-throughs' is to give prospective visitors a batter idea of what artifacts a museum has, where the museum is located, how much time to allow to see the museum, etc.

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@gbalias361 Жыл бұрын

Been watching your "tours" of bay area including old castle afb and zepher to chi town -- all very good My fist plane "ride" was in 1953 from travis to hickam field ha -- rode a R7V super connie coutesy of MATS VR-8 USN -- i was then assigned to MATS VR-7 USN at hickam -- I had ocaision to hitch a ride on a C-124 loaded with 4 connie engines and gear to midway - the 5 of us dumb sailors did not realize the cargo bay was unheated and damn near froze in our lite dungarees -- some cargo blankets saved the day -- we changed 4 engines and props on the connie and flew back in it in comfort --

@ralphballtrip2214 10 ай бұрын

Brings back a lot of good memories. I was stationed there and got out January 1973 spent two years there. C141 I miss it station Tachikawa Japan, two years worked on C1 24s C1 33

@jasontengan4554 Жыл бұрын

I was a C141B at Travis with 602 OMS between 1982 and 1986, my assignment tail number was 0032, hope to visit again before I die, 8088 is on static display, I miss the aircraft!

@jasontengan4554 Жыл бұрын

Crew chief!

@mikeschumacher9715 7 ай бұрын

I remember when that Museum was being built and it was the old Commissary. Shopped here many rimes. I worked law enforcement at Travis from 1983-1986, then 1987 to the time I left in 1994. I got called to back up a call for the ambulance at that Douglas C-124. As it was being set up for display, it wasn't closed up. 2 Navy guys, transiting the PAX terminal down the street, found their way in. A bit drunk one of them fell from the upper deck to the cargo floor. Blood everywhere. Kid was OK after a few days at David Grant Medical Center. Oh the memories. Somewhere in the museum, were the original SP blotters, from the race riots on base, where one evening the chow hall was burned up.

@RichardChouinard-lg2jm 2 ай бұрын

My dad retired fire chief from Travis AFB, I lived there and worked there in the 80s ❤

@user-ho4nw5sf3w 9 ай бұрын

I was in the C-5 squadron from Dec 1970 to October 1972. When I left the gate for the last time, I never looked back.

@danmathers141 Жыл бұрын

1:00:32; I was a visitor at Wright Pat about thirty years ago. At that time they only had one purpose built display hanger. A lot of their planes were outside. Now they have four such hangers and they still have some outside. Their collection has increased in size since then. I forgot to say the had some regular hanger space across the tarmac that housed many historic planes all crammed together. Many had their cockpits lined wit news paper indicating they had been outside not to long before. You had to be taken across in a special bus. I know they have four from your video also the planes you showed inside more properly displayed were the ones I remembered from before. Thank you for your care in showing these.

@debbieabel3369 Жыл бұрын

My 94 year old Dad , loves watching your channel, when Dad did his National service, he got to work on spitfires, Lancaster, etc , thanks for all that you are doing , bringing these videos to KZfaq 👍

@ebhustln707 Жыл бұрын

born and raised on Travis those C-5 engines were insanely loud you could hear them taking off all hours of the night from base housing

@tjjudah 4 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the tour... thank you.

@exohauler Жыл бұрын

I volunteered there in the late eighties as a kid. The C123 was my favorite. Couple notes of interest. THe 124 has a video like that of the 133 documenting it's final flight. Miss America 69 was named in jest that the pilots daughter should she become Miss America would so happen in 69 (my recollection at the time). Not sure if it is the same plane but you can see footage of it in the documentary of the Enola Gay when the B29s were taking off to go bomb Japan. Great video, thanks for sharing.

@richardskulina1256 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour. As a GI I flew from Travis to Hickam in the Navy version of the C-121 in April of 1956 and returned Hickam to Travis in August of '56. Would liked to have seen a portion of the active runway but I am thankful for what I saw here. Rich Skuina Lynchburg VA.

@rvborimax 2 ай бұрын

Flew a C5 out of Travis towards Japan in 74 to catch my ship there USS Midway CV41. (Now a museum in San Diego) Halfway to Hawaii engine malunction returned to Travis. Very tborough video, thanks

@dennispage8921 9 ай бұрын

I lived at Travis my last two years of high school 64-66. Housing we were in burned down in the 80’s. I used to clean aircraft in the summer. Washed many C124’s, c-130’s, c133’s and c-141’s. During Viet Nam war there were talkoffs and landings every three minutes. You’d get used to them.

@manuelbeltranmeza Ай бұрын

Muy interesante, gracias por compartir.

@ukar69 6 ай бұрын

When I visited in 2003 you were allowed to drive from the entrance gate to the museum. There happened to be a C-5 flying while I was there and I took some photos of it. Shortly after security turned up and had a word!

@danmathers141 10 ай бұрын

This was very interesting. If I lived nearby I would have seen it in person. Thank you again for this video. Loved the train videos too.

@JHGwjesusLuv Жыл бұрын

Hello,I want to Thank you for the pre-videos are great at the last one I watched to Castle AFB awesome! keep them coming . and this one with the T-28 cockpit fantastic. I Crewchiefed a AT-T-28D In Udorn,(Udon) now Thailand 🇹🇭 For USMAC-THAI AFB RLAFB And KHMER Air Force Brings back alot of memories Thank you. Keep up the good work 👏. you got my 👍 👍 👌. it's cool to see the C97 saw my first one at Sheppard AFB,Texas ,on the Tarmack outside the Training Hangers.My first duty Station was at McLellan Afb ,Ca and did time as assistant Crew-Chief on -EC-121

@onmygrind3854 Жыл бұрын

I was stationed there from 93-2000. I help do the last paint job on the Douglas C-131D, U3A Blue Canoo, F-86, C-124, C-119, the C-123, and the 141 that's in front of the BX.

@zenoslayer9618 8 ай бұрын

Waited 2 weeks there as a 8 year old 1958 for our goods to arrive from platsburgh then flew to japan hawaii wake island tour then 3 years later back to travis

@rickprobst7555 Жыл бұрын

that's cool seeing those Lycoming Engines bc where I live in Williamsport PA, they are Made right here in Williamsport in Lycoming County

@carolynsteed3649 6 ай бұрын

This is where we landed from returning from GUAM, believe it was59.Left on a Thursday, refueled at Hickham & landed here Wednesday, crossed the international dateline.Wasnt the KC10 supposed to replace the KC135 that refueled?? 👋✈️✈️✈️

@leezinke4351 Жыл бұрын

5:07 Sounds of the KC-10 is awesome!

@Wannes_ Ай бұрын

Well, at least I got to see it now Friend of mine arranged a visit back in 2012, as we're aliens to the US G'ment even though our country hosts both SHAPE and NATO HQs PR officer had changed jobs Our visit wasn't transferred to the next in line ... so the visitor's center at the gate was as far as we got

@sidthompso8097 9 ай бұрын

I flew on a c-118 from Frankfurt to newfoundland to maguire and lost one of the engines due to oil cooler leaks

@MrDiddi2002 Жыл бұрын

Danke fürs Hochladen 👍Und einen Gruß aus Deutschland. Martin B-26 Marauder?

@Beemer917 10 ай бұрын

The c119 was the plane from flight of ths phoenix. Is also the plane earthquake mcgoon was killed in.

@youtuuba 10 ай бұрын

Christian Petersen, well the C-119 was used in the awful remake of the excellent original movie, which used a C-82 "Packet" aircraft.

@Ricky40369 8 ай бұрын

Hi Pat.

@jeromehoudeshell2666 11 ай бұрын

Question. Do you have plans to visit the McClellan Air Museum in Sacramento and film your visit?

@youtuuba 11 ай бұрын

Jeromehiudeshell, no I don't.

@scuddrunner1 8 ай бұрын

That C-133 and another were STOLEN from the boneyard! There's a great story about it online. There's pictures of it flying with pipe for the pipeline sticking out the back end with the doors open. Lots of stories about this plane. My dad flew the C-124, un-pressurized and when the C-133 came out all the pilots wanted to fly them because they were pressurized. A lot of them crashed about 100 miles off the shore of CA and dad told me the pipots wanted back into the C-124.

@youtuuba 8 ай бұрын

Scudrunner, cite your sources. Otherwise I call "bs" on the plane actually being "stolen". You might not be aware that this C-133 was not the only C-133 obtained by the Cargo Master corporation for use in government work hauling outsize cargo in Alaska, with the federal and state government's blessing. The other two of their aircraft are still stored for their potential use at Mojave Airport in California.

@jerryengles6701 10 ай бұрын

You missed the C-7A, Caribou.

@youtuuba 10 ай бұрын

Jerry eagles, why would you even write an ungracious, unhelpful comment like this? What is its benefit? And how do you know that I missed a particular aircraft? They frequently take planes out for some kind of further refurbishment, etc; for photo shoots for the museum calendar, in order to rearrange the museum, and during those times one or more planes might not be on display.

@jerryengles6701 10 ай бұрын

@@youtuuba sorry if that upset you but I saw the Caribou on the ramp several times as you walked through. I had heard they did a great restoration job with it and was anxious to see it up close.

@noangel3652 Жыл бұрын

Once again too much driving not enough of what I came to see PLANES 😢

@youtuuba Жыл бұрын

noangel3652, once again, you complain needlessly about something you could easily get around by using the KZfaq 'fast forward'. If you put as much effort into thinking as you do griping, we would all be better off.

@flyerbob124 9 ай бұрын

Very surprised there wasn’t a TF-33 jet engine in the engine room given that Travis had a wing if C-141s back in the late 60s until they parked them. I worked on those engines in Japan.

@bhensel100 6 ай бұрын

Wow bud. You should have walked through and had someone explain what you were looking at before making the video. Gattlin guns on an O-2 ????? Picture of a C-133 and you called it a C-131 ???? Many other mistakes to numerous to mention. It almost seemed like you were rushing through everything. Why the rush instead of taking your time and making a quality video.

@youtuuba 6 ай бұрын

bhensel100, wow yourself. Your own short comment has a lot of errors; why didn't YOU slow down and take more care? Seriously, you are back seat driving without knowledge of the situation. There was nobody to walk through with me, as this is a small museum with minimal staffing, and the one or two volunteers there don't know all that much. I also only had a short time to be there, but I was hardly rushing. In most cases, I have a lot of knowledge of what is inside airplane museums, far more than most people. And do you of many other people who bother to make air museum videos? I know that an O-2 does not have a Gatling Gun (you called it a Gattlin gun); that was just a bit of levity because of the sight of the rocket pod on the wing suprised me, I even chuckled in the video. Usually when editing, if I see that I made a comment that might confuse visitors, I will add a caption to clarify, but I missed this one. Regarding the C-133 picture, yes I know the difference, but I had a slip of the tongue. But I noticed the error and fixed it with a caption. Perhaps you are so quick to find fault that you missed or ignored the correction. You also exaggerate. A LOT. I just re-watched the first half hour of this video and could count the small errors on one hand. You make it sound like I was saying incorrect things frequently, and that is very clearly not the case. You say they "are to [sic] numerous to mention"; yet in one short sentence you assert a great many mistakes yet you don't know how to spell "too". Pot calling the kettle black.