USN and USMC C-130 Photos



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    USMC VMGR-452's #164441 about to depart Alliance A/P after an overnight stay. Note the new props and paint. 11-20-20, [photo by Keith Snyder]
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    USMC KC-130F 149803/GR of VMGRT-253 seen at the staticshow of the RIAT 1996 (Photo Ed Groenendijk)
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    VMGR-234's 169018, sporting a new nose, on approach to home base NAs Ft. Worth, Feb. 5, 2021. Photo by Keith Snyder.
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    USN KC-130T #165315, now belonging to VR-53 but still carrying its previous owner's markings, on a scheduled "Convoy" passenger flight departing NAS Ft. Worth, March 26, 2021. Note the refueling pods are removed. [Photo by Keith Snyder]
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    USMC KC-130J Hercules #168069, with MAWTS-), conducts a touch and go exercise, in order to simulate launching in expeditionary airfields, while participating in Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 2-21, at Auxiliary Airfield II, near Yuma, Ariz., March 24, 2021. [USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Velasco]
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    USMC KC-130J #169227 with 1st MAW departs after providing expeditionary sustainment to U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Division during Castaway 21.1 on Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, March 15, 2021. [USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Ujian Gosun]
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    USMC KC-130J #169536 from VMGR-452 departs from Naval Base Ventura County on April 16, 2021. [Photo by Ron Tusi]
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    USMC KC-130J #169536 from VMGR-452 departs from Naval Base Ventura County on April 16, 2021. [Photo by Ron Tusi]
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    USN C-130F #149794 showing nose art 'Sky Pig'. Date taken unknown. [Photo courtesy of Troy Cook]
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    USN C-130F #149794 showing nose art 'Sky Pig'. Date unknown. [Photo courtesy of Troy Cook]
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    USMC KC-130J #165810 from VMGR-252 is seen in a parked pen at Marshall Aerospace facility after a planned maintenance interval carried out by Marshall Aerospace at Cambridge Airport on July 5, 2021. [Marshall Aerospace photo]
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    USMC KC-130J #165810 from VMGR-252 is seen in a parked pen at Marshall Aerospace facility after a planned maintenance interval carried out by Marshall Aerospace at Cambridge Airport on July 5, 2021. [Marshall Aerospace photo]
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    Harvest Hawk configured 166511, VMGR-252 (may be attached to VX-20 but still in VMGR-252 markings), preparing to depart Meacham Airport in Ft. Worth after an overnight stay on August 6, 2021, [photo by Keith Snyder]
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    USMC KC-130J #170039 was seen doing touch-and-go's on 29 after a test flight as FIXER 55 on April 2, 2021. The aircraft will go to VMGR-252. [Photo by ajwebb]
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    USMC KC-130J #167925 was seen arriving at its new home, NAS Ft. Worth. The aircraft was on its delivery flight to the home-based VMGR-234 on August 26, 2021. [Photo by Keith Snyder]