Lots of questions and comments about the Douglas C-133, over the past few years. I answered most of them in my book,
Remembering an Unsung Giant. Lots of other info on The C-133 Project web site,
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/c133bcargomaster/home.html.
The C-133 in best condition is C-133A 62008 at the National Musuem of the Air Force. But, it is shoehorned into a bunch of other airplanes. Next best, only because it is stored outside, is C-133B 90536, the last one built. It went from the SAC Museum to the AMC Museum, at Dover AFB, DE, about five years ago. It looks just like it did on the Travis ramp, when I went out to fly, which is probably its great advantage over 62008.
C-133A N199AB (ex-60199) is still at Ted Stevens IAP, AK, at least for a while. It is the only airworthy C-133.
Chanute Museum has C-133A 62009, but it is pretty much a shell, from all that I know. It was a "training device" for fire fighters, for some years.
The Pima museum has C-133B 90527. It is okay as a display of the type, but missing the rudder and pretty sandblasted in that climate (just as are many of the rest of the collection.
I own a piece of N2276V/90531, the side number from the left side of the nose. I was able to buy it from the salvage yard on Kolb Rd, in Tucson, that scrapped the airplane. It was my high time airplane in both type and career. That number became the logo for Firstfleet Publishers.
The two C-133s at Mojave are still owned by Cargomaster, Inc, in Anchorage. When I stopped there, two years ago, one of the people in base ops said "we'd like to get rid of them." When, how that might happen is totally a guess. They are parts bins for the rest of the fleet, potentially.
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