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Airframe Details for C-130 #4731

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Aircraft: 4731 (76-0492)
US Navy VXE-6 aircraft LC-130R 160741 taxiing on Antarctic ice. This C-130 eventually went to the USAF with the 139th AS as LC-130H 74-3302 after spending about two years at AMARC. [photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.vaq34.com/vxe6/" target="new">VXE-6 website</a>]
 LM Aero T/V 4731
Plant Lockheed Marietta Plant
Local C/N
Delivered USNavy 160741
LC-130R
Current USAF 76-3302
LC-130H
Status [act]

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Aircraft History

Date Status Local S/N Airforce/Unit Version Name Info
May 1977 [act] 160741 LC-130R
Unknown [act] 160741 USNavy VXE-6 'XD-01' LC-130R
US Navy VXE-6 aircraft LC-130R 160741 parked on Antarctic ice, possibly on December 16, 1994. This C-130 eventually went to the USAF with the 139th AS as LC-130H 74-3302 after spending about two years at AMARC. [photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.vaq34.com/vxe6/" target="new">VXE-6 website</a>]
28 Jul 1997 [sto] 76-3302 USAF AMARC LC-130R
AACF0179
Unknown [con] 76-3302 LC-130H
Converted to LC-130H.
30 Mar 2000 [act] 76-3302 USAF 139 AS LC-130H
Members of the NYANG's 109th AW load cargo onto LC-130 #76-0492, ski equipped aircraft at McMurdo Station, Antarctica on December 28, 2018. [ANG photo by TSgt. Gabriel Enders]
Operated for the National Science Foundation in Waco.


Abbreviations and symbols:
[act] Active [i/a] Instructional Airframe [sto] Stored (e.g. at AMARG)
[cld] Cancelled Order [msh] Involved in Mishap [w/o] Write-off
[con] Converted [o/o] On Order
[des] Destroyed (drone) [pre] Preserved (museum, gateguard) T/V LM Aero Type/Version (Construction) number
[emb] Embargoed [scr] Scrapped Photo Available
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