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Airframe Details for C-130 #4705

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Aircraft: 4705 (74-2072)
USAF C-130H #74-2072 and personnel with the 317th AG taxi into a parking space at Dyess AFB, Texas after a long deployment in support of OIF on October 5, 2003. [USAF photo by SRA Ryan A. Summers]
 LM Aero T/V 4705
Plant Lockheed Marietta Plant
Local C/N
Delivered USAF 74-072
C-130H
Current USAF 74-072
C-130H
Status [i/a]

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Aircraft History

Date Status Local S/N Airforce/Unit Version Name Info
Dec 1976 [act] 74-072 C-130H
Unknown [act] 74-072 USAF 463 TAW C-130H
Unknown [act] 74-072 USAF 40 AS 'DY' C-130H
USAF C-130H #74-2072 of the 40th Airlift Squadron 'Screaming Eagles' from Dyess AFB, Texas being one of the two support aircraft for the USAF Thunderbirds for the June 1996 London Air Show. [Photo by Jonathan Somerville]
Feb 1998 [act] 74-072 USAF 40 AS C-130H
Mar 1999 [act] 74-072 USAF 40 AS 'DY' C-130H " TEXAS SHADOW"
USAF C-130H #74-2072 from 40 AS Nose Art 'TEXAS SHADOW'. [Photographer Unkown]

USAF C-130H #74-2072 from 40 AS Nose Art 'TEXAS SHADOW'. [Photo 317th AW public affairs]
Special characteristics:
  • Nose Art
Jun 2012 [act] 74-072 USAF 61 AS C-130H
Jul 2014 [i/a] 74-072 C-130H
Airmen from 402 AMXG/EDMKA roll a C-130H (combination of C-130s #74-2072 and nose from aircraft #74-1665) down Highway 247 in route to Warrior Air Base where Airmen work on repairing various aircraft during exercise conditions board Robins AFB, Georgia. [USAF photo by Ed Aspera]


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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