Blue Angels' Fat Albert C-130.. — Military Forum

Sponsor Message:


My Starred Topics \| Profile \| New Topic \| Forum Index \| Help \| Search

Blue Angels' Fat Albert C-130..

GulfstreamGuy From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 628 posts, RR: 6
Posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 6330 times:

I am trying to find out the exact specs and history on the C-130 that is known as "Fat Albert" for the USN Blue Angels. Type, year of manufacturing, other users if any, etc. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
GulfstreamGuy

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. " -Jimmy Buffett

9 replies: All unread, jump to last

Emmett99 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 6253 times:

Check this out. I haven't (other than the schedule) but there may be something.

http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/flashindex.html

GulfstreamGuy From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 628 posts, RR: 6
Reply 2, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 6172 times:

Emmett99,

Yeah, I had tried that site already but they only talk about the history of the "Fat Albert Airlines" team. No specs on the C-130 itself. Awesome site though! Blue Angels rock!

GulfstreamGuy

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. " -Jimmy Buffett

FlagshipAZ From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3419 posts, RR: 15
Reply 3, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 6171 times:

GulfstreamGuy....I asked about this same plane a long time ago. Apparently there were several "Fat Albert" over the years. If you'll do a search in this forum (military aviation), you may be able to find it. You'll fing it quite interesting. Look in my profile under topic starter. I think it's stll there. Regards.

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Ben Franklin

Emmett99 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 6126 times:

GSG,

This is a fairly interesting site on the C-130. Hope it helps.

http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/index.sht

2912n From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 2013 posts, RR: 9
Reply 5, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 6098 times:

As of 10-02 the Blue Angels were assigned C-130T BuNo 164763. It is assigned to them but is carried on Marine Corps books. Crew, as noted by the BA website is all USMC. They were also assigned a TC-130G BuNo 151891, but I think (not sure) that this a/c was replaced by the 130T.

View Large View Medium
Click here for bigger photo!

Photo © Tony Zeljeznjak

GulfstreamGuy From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 628 posts, RR: 6
Reply 6, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 6083 times:

Thanks for all of everyone's help. I was able to find it in this great web page.
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/navyserials.html This is a great site for anyone needing BuNos for military planes.

The C-130 that I have a picture of was taken at the air show in Little Rock AFB in 1999, so that particuliar Fat Albert was a C-130G BuNo 151891. It was replaced by C-130T BuNo 164763 in Nov. 2002. The C-130G I have a picture of is now at the Navel Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

Thanks again.

GulfstreamGuy

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. " -Jimmy Buffett

Maiznblu_757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 5112 posts, RR: 51
Reply 7, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 6028 times:

In 2002, the Blues had two C130's on the ground in Traverse City at the same time for the whole weekend. I had never seen that before. What is pretty regular though, is when an engine FOD's out, they use an ANG C130 to bring a new engine up from P-Cola.

ExitRow From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 8, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 6154 times:

Here's something interesting. When I photographed the 737 prototype (N515NA) here at BFI, I noticed something interesting. Look to the lower right of the door. It says "Fat Albert I."

View Large View Medium
Click here for bigger photo!

Photo © William Anthony - AIRFRAMES

Apparently, with a length only one foot greater than its wingspan, the stubby aircraft earned the nickname, "Fat Albert."

I assume this was before the Blue's got their own Fat Albert? This airframe was built in '67.

william

PhatAlbert From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 111 posts, RR: 4
Reply 9, posted (7 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 5083 times:

The Phat Albert nowadays is 164763 (cn 5258)

http://www.airliners.net/photos/photos/3/4/1/069143.jpg

and yes all crew is USMC and i think they serve 2 years maybe.. then are replaced by other officers.. same as the f-18 pilots.. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/069143/L/ is where a lil info might come from.. hope i helped a lil

*Isaac*

[Edited 2005-11-04 08:42:31]

**Isaac**

Top Of Page

Forum Index

Reply To This Topic Blue Angels' Fat Albert C-130..

Username:	No username? Sign up now!
Password:	Forgot Password? Be reminded. Remember me on this computer (uses cookies)

Military aviation related posts only!
Not military related? Use the other forums
No adverts of any kind. This includes web pages.
No hostile language or criticizing of others.
Do not post copyright protected material.
Use relevant and describing topics.
Check if your post already been discussed.
Check your spelling!
DETAILED RULES

Check Spelling

Please check your spelling (press "Check Spelling" above)

Similar topics: