USAF C-130 Photos



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    A1C Joshua Hornbrook, 1st Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron assistant crew chief, inspects an AC-130U Spooky before its retirement flight at Hurlburt Field on September 21, 2015. Tail number #90-0163, "Bad Omen", was retired Sept. 21, 2015, after more than 20 years of service. [USAF photo by Amn Kai White]
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    USAF EC-130H #73-1590 of the 43rd ECS conducts practice approaches at Spokane IAP Washington on April 18, 2015. [photographer is unknown]
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    USAF MC-130J and MC-130H aircraft drop watercraft and supplies during an exercise on September 19, 2015, over the Pacific Ocean. This was the first time an MC-130J Commando II completed the Maritime Craft Aerial Delivery System airdrop in the Pacific. [USAF photo by A1C Alexa Ann Henderson]
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    USAF C-130A #56-0533 seen in IIAF Tehran's Mehrabad 1st airbase (Iran) in 1962. Later shot down at Ban Salou, Laos, during Blind Bat flare mission on November 24, 1969 . [photographer is not known]
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    USAF MC-130J #13-5777 is seen departing from the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Georgia and heading towards is new home with the 17th SOS at Kadena AB, Japan on October 24, 2015. [Photo by David Key]
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    USAF MC-130J #13-5778 is seen departing from the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Georgia and heading towards is new home with the 67th SOS at RAF Mildenhall on October 25, 2015. [Lockheed Martin Photo by Thinh D. Nguyen]
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    USAF C-130H #74-2067 from 36 AS flies back to Yokota AB on November 4, 2015, during Exercise VIGILANT ACE 16. [USAF photo by Osakabe Yasuo]
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    Airmen with the 374th AMXS and 374th LRS fuel C-130H #74-1669 from 36 AS during VIGILANT ACE 16 at Yokota Air Base, November 2, 2015. [USAF photo by SSgt. Cody H. Ramirez]
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    USAF C-130A #56-0473 is seen conducting a personnel airdrop in the early 60's over Taiwan. [Photo owner unknown]
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    USAF HC-130J #13-5782, assigned to the USAF 71st Rescue Squadron was ferried to its new home at Moody AFB on December 11, 2015. #15-5782 is 2500th production C-130 Hercules. [Lockeed Martin photo by Damien Guarnieri]
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    A1C Jonathan Marquez, 71st RQS crew chief, marshals in #13-5782 HC-130J Combat King II on December 11, 2015, at Moody AFB. The aircraft is the 2,500th C-130 delivered by Lockheed Martin Corporation. [USAF SrA Ceaira Tinsley]
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    USAF HC-130J #13-5773 assigned to 71 RQS at Moody AFB departs from Lockheed Martins Marietta facility on December 11, 2015. [Lockheed Martin Photography by David Key]
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    USAF MC-130J #13-5783 assigned to AFSOC at Hurlburt Field, Florida departs from Lockheed Martins Marietta facility on December 11, 2015. This aircraft is due to be converted to AC-130J. [Lockheed Martin Photography by David Key]
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    USAF C-130E #62-1857 in early 2012 departing Reno, Nevada. [photo by Gary Mailander]
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    USAF HC-130J #13-5785 assigned to 71 RQS at Moody AFB departs from Lockheed Martins Marietta facility on December 18, 2015. [Lockheed Martin Photography by David Key]