USAF C-130 Photos



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    Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company turns over the keys to C-130J #15-5831 to the 37th AS fleet team from Ramstein on November 29, 2017. The new aircraft replaces a C-130J that was transferred to Yokota AB. [Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company photo]
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    Col. Joseph H. Wenckus, 86th AW vice commander, taxies C-130J #15-5831 to its place on the flightline at Ramstein AB, December 4, 2017. The new aircraft was flown from the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Marietta, Georgia, and delivered to the 37th AS at Ramstein. [USAF photo by SrA Devin Boyer]
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    Airmen with the 374th AMXS from Yokota AB push a power unit aside after using it for their inspection before an Operation Christmas Drop sortie at Andersen AFB, December 14, 2017. [USAF photo by SSgt. David Owsianka]
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    A crew chief with the 374th AMXS turns around after marshaling C-130J #15-5817 from 36 AS prior to its takeoff for a training sortie during the 66th Operation Christmas Drop at Andersen AFB, December 14, 2017. [USAF photo by SSgt. David Owsianka]
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    USAF C-130J #15-5813 from 36 AS lands during Operation Christmas Drop 2017, on December 6, 2017, at Andersen AFB. [USAF photo by A1C Christopher Quail]
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    Capt. Cerre Dolby, a pilot assigned to the 36th AS, Yokota AB, flies a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft during an Operation Christmas Drop 2017 training flight near the island of Rota, December 8, 2017. [USAF photo by TSgt. Richard P. Ebensberger]
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    USAF MC-130H #87-0023 of the 7th SOS showing its noseart "Forth Horseman" at the RIAT 2003 at Fairford. [Photo by Ed Groenendijk]
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    Members of the C-130J Super Hercules #16-5833 delivery team pose for a photo, December 21, 2017, at Yokota AB, Japan. This was the eighth C-130J delivered to Yokota as part of a fleet-wide redistribution of assets set in motion by Air Mobility Command; this aircraft came from a Lockheed Martin facility. [USAF photo by SrA Donald Hudson]
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    Members of the C-130J Super Hercules number #08-8605 delivery team pose for a photo, December 21, 2017, at Yokota AB, Japan. Crewmembers from the 36th AS flew halfway around the world to deliver the aircraft from Ramstein AB. [USAF photo by SrA Donald Hudson]
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    USAF C-130J #16-5833 from 36 AS sits on the flightline, December 21, 2017, at Yokota AB, Japan. [USAF photo by SrA Donald Hudson]
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    USAF C-130J #08-8605 from 36 AS lands on the runway, December 21, 2017, at Yokota AB. This is the ninth C-130J delivered to Yokota as part of a fleet-wide redistribution of assets set in motion by Air Mobility Command. [USAF photo by SrA Donald Hudson]
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    EC-130H Compass Call 73-1584 prepares to take off to execute the first training mission with an upgraded cockpit acquired via the avionic viability program at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona on July 11, 2016. Since it became operational in 1983, the EC-130H Compass Call has demonstrated its electronic combat power in tactical air operations around the world. [Courtesy Photo for USAF]
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    A USAF pilot from the 79th Rescue Squadron conducts a preflight check HC-130J Combat King II #09-5708 before deploying to south Florida, in response to Hurricane Irma from Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona on September 9, 2017. Approximately 80 Airmen from the 563rd Rescue Group deployed to south Florida, to execute recovery operations after the Category 4 hurricane ripped through the Florida Keys. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Drzazgowski]
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    USAF C-130A #56-0551 at the Island of Svalbard (Adventdalen, a frozen tundra air-strip), April 17. 1959, during the search for spy sattelite DISCOVERER II. [Photo from Svalbard museum, by Erling Nødtvedt]
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    USAF C-130A #56-0551 at the Island of Svalbard (Adventdalen, a frozen tundra air-strip), April 17. 1959, during the search for spy sattelite DISCOVERER II. [Photo from Svalbard museum, by Erling Nødtvedt]