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Marshall's wins historic USMC service contract
USMC KC-130J #168072 from VMGR-352 taxis to the runway at Volk Field ANGB on August 17, 2018 during the Northern Lightning 18-2 exercise. [ANG photo by TSgt. Mary E. Greenwood]
Oct 01, 2020 - Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group (MADG) has won a ten-year multi-million dollar contract with the US Marine Corps to provide depot-level maintenance to its 66-strong fleet of KC-130J tanker aircraft deployed worldwide. [Read more...]
USMC KC-130J and F-35B collide over California
USMC KC-130J #166765 from VMGR-352 is seen after it made an emergency landing after colliding with an F-35B fighter jet during a refueling operation over the Southern California desert near Thermal on September 29, 2020. [Photo from KESQ-TV via AP]
Sep 29, 2020 - A USMC KC-130J #166765 and F-35B from VMFA-121 collided during a refueling exercise around 16:00hrs local time over Southern California. The F-35 crashed near Naval Air Facility El Centro and the KC-130 made a forced landing in a farm field near the airport in Thermal. All the aircrew survived. [Read more...]
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First KC-130J delivered to USMC's reserve squadron at Stewart ANGB
USMC KC-130J #169536 marked in VMGR-452 markings seen taking to the air on a test flight from Lockheeds Marietta facility on May 14, 2020. [Lockheed Martin Photography by David Key]
May 29, 2020 - Lockheed Martin recently delivered the first KC-130J Super Hercules tanker assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452 (VMGR-452), the Marine Forces Reserve squadron at Stewart Air National Guard Base, New York. A U.S. Marine Corps crew ferried the aircraft from Lockheed Martin’s facility on May 28 to the aircraft’s new home. [Read more...]
Marshall hosts official signing ceremony for replacement Fat Albert
Jul 19, 2019 - Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group today hosted the official signing of a contract between the US and UK for a C-130J aircraft that will become the replacement to the iconic Fat Albert for the Blue Angels flying demonstration team. [Read more...]
Semper Fi: Marietta Flight Ops Home to 5 Decades of Marines
USMC KC-130J #169532 call sign 'Fixer 55' on approach to Marietta Dobbins ARB on March 6, 2019. [Photo by Luis David Sanchez]
Jun 28, 2019 - “Once a Marine, always a Marine” took on new meaning for Marietta Flight Operations team members with the delivery of a KC-130J to the U.S. Marine Corps on April 3, 2019. [Read more...]
Propeller blade responsible for 2017 KC-130 crash that killed 16 service members
USMC KC-130 Hercules aircraft crashed in the Mississippi area on Monday with all on-board being lost.
Dec 05, 2018 - Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane cruised over Mississippi at 20,000 feet, causing the KC-130T to break into pieces and plunge into a soybean field, killing 15 Marines and a Navy corpsman. [Read more...]
Five Marines missing, two rescued after F-18 and KC-130J collide off Japanese coast
USMC KC-130J #167981 from VMGR-152, taxi's into Antonio Bautista AB, Philippines, to load Philippine Marines, during exercise Balikatan 2015 on April 15, 2015. The Philippine Marines used the C-130 as transport from Puerto Princesa to Subic, where they will train shoulder to shoulder with Marines from III Marine Expeditionary Force. [USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Wesley Timm]
Dec 05, 2018 - Two of seven Marines have been rescued after a "mishap" involving a pair of Marine Corps aircraft early Thursday off the coast of Japan. [Read more...]
The Navy has landed
USMC C-130J #166764, sits on the tarmac at Robins AFB, as part of a new maintenance, repair and overhaul workload for base personnel. [USAF courtesy photo]
Jun 07, 2018 - The first Department of the Navy C-130, flown by the Marines, has arrived at Robins Air Force Base as part of a new workload for base personnel. [Read more...]
Sumos conduct aerial refueling with Thunderbolts, Green Knights
A USMC KC-130J Hercules with VMGR-152 stands by while being prepped for takeoff before a night time aerial refueling training exercise with F-35B Lightning II aircraft with VMFA- 121 and F/A-18C Hornets with VMFA-251 at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, October 26, 2017. [USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia-Herrera]
Oct 27, 2017 - Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 152 flew KC-130J Hercules aircraft to conduct nighttime aerial refueling training operations with the F-35B Lightning II with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 and F/A-18C Hornets with VMFA-251 Oct. 25-26, 2017. [Read more...]
USMC KC-130 crashes in Mississippi
USMC KC-130 Hercules aircraft crashed in the Mississippi area on Monday with all on-board being lost.
Jul 11, 2017 - A USMC KC-130T from VMGR-452 crashed in the state of Mississippi on Monday at approximately 16:00hrs CDT near the Sunflower-Leflore county line about 85 miles North of Jackson, claiming the lives of 16 service members. [Read more...]
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