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Airframe Details for C-130 #3073

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Aircraft: 3073 (55-0046)
AC-130A ship #55-0046 seen in the desert on January 28, 2005 retired just over ten years earlier on November 15, 1994. Later in the year the ship was broken up on June 28th. See the next series of photos of the breaking up of #046. [photo by Philip Kovaric]
 LM Aero T/V 3073
Plant Lockheed Marietta Plant
Local C/N
Delivered USAF 55-046
C-130A
Current USAF 55-046
AC-130A
Status [scr]

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Aircraft History

Date Status Local S/N Airforce/Unit Version Name Info
Unknown [act] 55-046 C-130A
Unknown [con] 55-046 C-130A
Converted for air refuelling testing for the USMC.
Unknown [act] 55-046 C-130A
USMC C-130A 55-0046 on loan from the USAF to test air refueling in 1958. The aircraft was modified back to a C-130A and shortly after returned to the USAF. Later it would be modified into an AC-130A.
Early air refuelling testing
On loan from the USAF to the USMC for testing air refuelling with the C-130 in 1957 and 1958.
Unknown [con] 55-046 C-130A
Converted back to standard C-130A.
Unknown [con] 55-046 AC-130A
USAF AC-130A 55-0046, 711th SOS, 919th SOG, seen in September 1978. [photographer unknown, via Nick Williams]
Converted to AC-130A.
Unknown [act] 55-046 USAF 711 SOS AC-130A " Proud Warrior"
Special characteristics:
  • Mission Marks
Wore 12 mission markings in the form of pineapples for Operation Just Cause in the 1989 invasion of Panama.
15 Nov 1994 [sto] 55-046 USAF AMARC AC-130A
AC-130A ship #55-0046 seen in the desert on January 28, 2005 retired just over ten years earlier on November 15, 1994. Later in the year the ship was broken up on June 28th. See the next series of photos of the breaking up of #046. [photo by Philip Kovaric]
CF0166
28 Jun 2005 [scr] 55-046 AC-130A
Part of a series of nine photos of the breaking up of AC-130A #55-0046 at AMARC on June 28, 2005. Once broken up the parts can be trucked away for recycling. [photo by Philip Kovaric]

Part of a series of nine photos of the breaking up of AC-130A #55-0046 at AMARC on June 28, 2005. Once broken up the parts can be trucked away for recycling. [photo by Philip Kovaric]


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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