Contractor uses a boom crane to transport the vertical tail from a Lockheed-Martin C-130H #87-9282 once assigned to the 911th AW, on October 10, 2024, at Pittsburgh International Airport - ARB. During its operational years at the 911th AW, tail number #79282 played a significant role in both training and deployment missions, accumulating 12,143.7 flight hours. [USAF photo by MSgt. Jeffrey Grossi]
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News: The Last Hercules: The 911th Airlift Wing bids farewell to the final C-130H [2024-12-09]
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.
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