AFRC C-130 Photos



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    USAF C-130H #92-3024 from 773 AS is seen on approach to the runway at Aviano AB on November 3, 2006. [Photo by Giampaolo Tonello]
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    USAF C-130H #92-3024 from 773 AS is seen on approach to the runway at Aviano AB on November 3, 2006. [Photo by Giampaolo Tonello]
  • C-130 MAFFS 1
    Air Force Reservists assigned to the 302nd Airlift Wing, PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado load a U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System unit onto a C-130 Hercules here during the early morning hours June 24. The 302nd Airlift Wing has been tasked by the National Interagency Fire Center to support wildland aerial firefighting missions in the Rocky Mountain area. [USAF photo by Ann Skarban]
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    USAF - AFRC C-130H #94-7319 assigned to the 302nd Airlift Wing drops a load of water during Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System certification near Hackett Mountain in Colorado on May 18, 2014. [USAF photo by Master Sgt. Daniel Butterfield]
  • C-130 MAFFS 3 2013 09 130903-f-iz963-001
    MAFFS 2 returns to Colorado. With remnants of Phos-Chek retardant beneath its tail section, MAFFS 2 from the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing returned to home station at Peterson AFB, Colorado on August 30, 2013 after providing aerial fire fighting support in the western U.S. MAFFS equipped C-130s, to include the 302nd AW's MAFFS 2 and MAFFS 5 have flown a total of 576 sorties making 541 drops using 1,387,881 gallons of retardant on fires in eight states from June 11 through Sep. 5. [USAF Photo]
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    Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130H #94-7319 from the 302nd Airlift Wing drops a load of water April 22 near Fairplay, Colorado. The Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd AW held its annual MAFFS certification and re-certification for C-130 aircrews April 19-23. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Nathan Federico]
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    Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System designated C-130H #94-7317 from the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing prepares to take off from the Peterson Air Force Base flightline. The 302nd AW is the only AFRC wing that has the MAFFS mission. [USAF photo]
  • C-130 MAFFS 6 2012 07 120627-F-IG195-644
    ANG, Air Force Reserve support aerial firefighting response Air National Guard Master Sgts. Marshall Davis and Chris Reese prepare the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System unit inside their C-130 Hercules aircraft June 27, 2012 before launching to respond from Peterson AFB to the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado. MAFFS is a self-contained aerial firefighting system that can discharge 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant in less than five seconds, covering an area one-quarter of a mile long by 100 feet wide. Davis and Reese are C-130 Hercules loadmasters assigned to the 153rd Airlift Wing, which is based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Stephany D. Richards]
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    A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 Hercules assigned to the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing lays a line of fire retardant June 27 against the Waldo Canyon Fire near Colorado Springs. Four MAFFS-equipped aircraft, two from the 153rd AW and two from the AFRC's 302nd AW, flew in support of the U.S. Forest Service to fight the Colorado wildfire. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Stephany D. Richards]
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    Air Force Reservists assigned to the 302nd AW load a U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System unit onto a C-130H #94-7318 of the 731 AS during the early morning hours June 24. The 302nd AW has been tasked by the National Interagency Fire Center to support wildland aerial firefighting missions in the Rocky Mountain area. [USAF photo by Ann Skarban]
  • C-130 MAFFS 10 110909-F-XU932-0171
    A U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System II (MAFFS II) unit is loaded on to an AFRC C-130H #94-7317 September 9, 2012 at Peterson AFB, Colorado. in preparation for support of aerial firefighting missions in Texas. Four Air Reserve Component MAFFS-equipped C-130s and crews have been tasked by U.S. Northern Command in support of the National Interagency Fire Center to supplement wildland firefighting efforts in Texas. Two C-130s from the 302nd Airlift Wing, stationed at Peterson AFB, Colorado. and two C-130s from the 145th Airlift Wing of the North Carolina ANG will deploy to Austin, Texas. [USAF Photo]
  • C-130 MAFFS 11 100422-F-0414C-041
    AFRC C-130H #94-7318 loadmasters fire the Modular Airborne Firefighting System II unit April 22, 2012 during the 302nd Airlift Wing's annual MAFFS wet fire test at Peterson AFB, Colorado. The wing test fired the new "MAFFS II" system in preparation for the U.S. Forest Service's MAFFS certification week April 25-May 1 in Greenville, South Carolina. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Collier]
  • C-130 MAFFS 12 101204-F-0414C-036
    Members of the Air Force Reserve's 39th Aerial Port Squadron help to load a modified C-130 Hercules paratroop door onto an aircraft Dec. 4 at Peterson AFB, Colorado. The wing, the only aerial firefighting organization in the AF Reserve, received its orders late Dec. 3 to ready approximately 50 personnel and two aircraft to deploy on short notice to help fight a more than 7,000 acre fire burning out of control near Israel's third-largest city, Haifa. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Collier]
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    USAF C-130H2 #89-9104 from 757 AS, taxis on the flightline just before take-off for an aerial spray sortie on March 17, 2015. The aircrews flew the aircraft, outfitted with a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS), to the nearby Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) to spray herbicide, eliminating unwanted ground covering weeds which can obscure target sites and Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) on bombing ranges. [USAF photo by MSgt. Bob Barko Jr.]
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    USAF - AFRC C-130H #92-3024 at Ezeiza Argentina on June 20, 2011. (Fotografia Fabian Pesikonis)