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Airframe Details for C-130 #3203

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C-130 Aircraft Profile

Aircraft: 3203 (57-0496)
LM Aero T/V 3203
Plant Lockheed Marietta Plant
Local C/N
Delivered USAF 57-496
C-130A
Current USNavy 570496
DC-130A
Status [sto]

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Aircraft History

Date Status Local S/N Airforce/Unit Version Name Info
Aug 1958 [act] 57-496 C-130A
Unknown [con] 57-496 DC-130A
Mar 1963 [act] 57-496 USAF 3225 DS DC-130A
Aug 1968 [act] 57-496 USAF 4472 CCTS DC-130A
Unknown [act] 57-496 USAF 11 TDS 'DF' DC-130A
Unknown [act] 57-496 USAF 11 TDS 'DM' DC-130A
09 Jan 1979 [sto] 57-496 USAF MASDC DC-130A
CF025
14 Mar 1979 [act] 570496 USNavy VC-3 'UF-496' DC-130A
Unknown [act] 570496 DC-130A
Operated by Flight Systems Inc. on behalf of the USN.
Mar 1990 [act] 570496 DC-130A

Operated by AVTEL Flight Test Inc. on behalf of the USN.
Oct 2005 [sto] 570496 DC-130A
Stored at RoCAF Lake, California
27 Jun 2007 [sto] 570496 USAF AMARC DC-130A
2G0055


Abbreviations and symbols:
[act] Active [i/a] Instructional Airframe [sto] Stored (e.g. at AMARG)
[cld] Cancelled Order [msh] Involved in Mishap [w/o] Write-off
[con] Converted [o/o] On Order
[des] Destroyed (drone) [pre] Preserved (museum, gateguard) T/V LM Aero Type/Version (Construction) number
[emb] Embargoed [scr] Scrapped Photo Available
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Oct 23, 2022 - 09:19 AM
Final disposition: China Lake?

I do not believe this aircraft ended up at AMARC. One of the DC130s was used for a live weapons test in 2003 (I know this, my father was the project engineer for the shoot.) Based on available information, I have narrowed it down to frame -461 or -469 (this one.) Web sources show -461 as being intact and still in its drone paint scheme, and more than one source say that -496 was given to Weapons Survivability Lab, China Lake, who performed the test. I highly believe this is correct, and the aircraft would not have been in any condition to move to AMARC since then.


Mar 27, 2023 - 07:35 PM
570496

This acft is at China Lake.

The one at AMARG with CF055 is 570497





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