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Wyoming National Guard activates C-130s to fight LA wildfires
Jan 10, 2025 - Three Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s equipped with the U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or MAFFS, and associated personnel were activated by U.S. Northern Command to support firefighting efforts in the Los Angeles area, California, on January 9, 2025. [Read more...]
Nevada ANG Activated for Firefighting to assist in the greater Los Angeles area
Jan 10, 2025 - U.S. Northern Command has activated eight C-130 aircraft equipped with Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS) and associated personnel to relocate from their home stations to the Channel Islands in Southern California to support firefighting efforts in the Los Angeles area. [Read more...]
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First female officer to command RMAF Hercules squadron
Jan 06, 2025 - Major Norlela Harun has made history as the first female pilot in the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) to command 20 Squadron, which operates the C-130H Hercules transport aircraft. [Read more...]
Marshall extends support contracts for Danish and Norwegian C-130 fleets
Jan 06, 2025 - Marshall has extended its contracts to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) for eight Lockheed Martin C-130J aircraft operated by the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) and the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). [Read more...]
OCD 24 concludes 73 years of bringing aid to Pacific islands
Dec 20, 2024 - Operation Christmas Drop 2024 concluded on December 14, marking 73 years of delivering aid to some of the most isolated communities in the world. [Read more...]
Lessons learned: Memories of Operation Just Cause remain 'vivid' for Hurlburt gunship crews, 35 years later
Dec 19, 2024 - For members of the special operations community, the memories of certain missions don't fade away with time. [Read more...]
The Last Hercules: The 911th Airlift Wing bids farewell to the final C-130H
Dec 09, 2024 - The 911th Airlift Wing bid farewell to tail number #87-9282, the last of its remaining C-130H Hercules aircraft, on December 3rd, 2024, at Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station. The moment emphasized the wing's completed transition to a C-17 Globemaster III mission in 2017, soundly punctuating a decades-long chapter as a tactical airlift wing. [Read more...]
U.S. C-130Js support Saudi-led airdrop exercise
Dec 02, 2024 - The 386th Air Expeditionary Wing recently launched a C-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 39th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in support of the Royal Saudi Air Force-led TUWAIQ-4 multilateral exercise occurring in early December 2024 within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. [Read more...]
First flight to ice for RNZAF’s new C-130J Hercules
Nov 26, 2024 - Flying one of the new Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) C-130J-30 Hercules to Antarctica for the first time was like getting out of an old manual truck and into a new SUV, the pilot says. [Read more...]
United States delivers C-130 aircraft to Tunisian Air Force
Nov 18, 2024 - The U.S. government celebrated the delivery of one C-130H2 Hercules aircraft to the Tunisian Air Force in a ceremony at Sidi Ahmed Air Base in Bizerte. [Read more...]
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