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Marshall signs 14 year contract to support RNLAF C-130H fleet
RNlAF C-130H #G-781 from 336 sqn is coming in for landing at Eindhoven AB on September 10th, 2012. [Photo by Jarco Hage]
Dec 20, 2018 - Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has secured a contract with the Royal Netherlands Air Force to sustain its C-130H fleet through to its out of service date. [Read more...]
EC-130H, 15 years and nearly 42K combat hours in support of the Coalition mission
Airmen assigned to the 41st EECS talk next to EC-130H #64-14862 Compass Call final mission meeting on the flight line at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on September 6, 2015. The Compass Call is an airborne tactical weapon system using a heavily modified version of the C-130 Hercules airframe. [USAF photo by TSgt. Joseph Swafford]
Dec 15, 2018 - On a rainy, 40-degree evening at Bagram Airfield, EC-130H Compass Call maintainers and aircrew walk out to the flightline to work on their aircraft. [Read more...]
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New era for 47 Sqn's exchange post with the USAF
Lieutenant Colonel Mascato with Wing Commander Andy Johnson seen during the flag exchange ceremony on December 12, 2018 at RAF Brize Norton. [RAF, ©UK Crown Copyright]
Dec 14, 2018 - On 12 December 2018, No. 47 Squadron held an informal ceremony to mark the end of their successful pilot exchange post with 15th Special Operations Squadron (SOS) and to begin their pilot exchange with 9th SOS. [Read more...]
Propeller blade responsible for 2017 KC-130 crash that killed 16 service members
USMC KC-130 Hercules aircraft crashed in the Mississippi area on Monday with all on-board being lost.
Dec 05, 2018 - Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane cruised over Mississippi at 20,000 feet, causing the KC-130T to break into pieces and plunge into a soybean field, killing 15 Marines and a Navy corpsman. [Read more...]
Five Marines missing, two rescued after F-18 and KC-130J collide off Japanese coast
USMC KC-130J #167981 from VMGR-152, taxi's into Antonio Bautista AB, Philippines, to load Philippine Marines, during exercise Balikatan 2015 on April 15, 2015. The Philippine Marines used the C-130 as transport from Puerto Princesa to Subic, where they will train shoulder to shoulder with Marines from III Marine Expeditionary Force. [USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Wesley Timm]
Dec 05, 2018 - Two of seven Marines have been rescued after a "mishap" involving a pair of Marine Corps aircraft early Thursday off the coast of Japan. [Read more...]
External fuel tanks trial on RAAF C-130J Hercules
RAAF C-130J Hercules #A97-440 fitted with external fuel tanks as part of a trial to determine the value of extra fuel capacity in the Hercules fleet as seen on November 14, 2018. [ Photo by CPL David Gibbs, © Commonwealth of Australia, DoD]
Nov 17, 2018 - External fuel tanks will be trialled on a pair of Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules transport aircraft over the next 12 months. [Read more...]
Flight Engineer passes rare milestone
U.S. Air Force Reserve CMSgt. Kenneth Kunkel, 746th EAS flight engineer, stands in front of a C-130 Hercules on November 13, 2018, at Al Udeid AB, Qatar. Kunkel reached 10,000 flying hours October 6, 2018, a number considered prestigious amongst military aviators. [USAF photo by TSgt. Christopher Hubenthal]
Nov 14, 2018 - Working at 20,000 feet in a C-130 Hercules has been one Airman's passion for more than three decades of his 38-year career. [Read more...]
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group delivers first Royal Bahraini C-130J
RBAF C-130J #702 is seen on a test flight from Marshalls Aerospace at Cambridge Airport on October 26, 2018. [Photo by Matt Varley]
Nov 13, 2018 - Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has delivered the first Royal Bahraini Air Force C-130J aircraft. [Read more...]
PRANG WC-130 crash investigation results released
USAF C-130H #65-0968 from the 198th AS is seen landing at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport on October 8, 2016. [Photo by Carlos Aleman]
Nov 09, 2018 - Air Mobility Command released the results of its investigation into the WC-130H Hercules crash near Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, Savannah, Georgia, May 2, that killed all nine Airmen on board. [Read more...]
Pakistani C-130 crash lands after training flight
PAF C-130 on fire after a hard landing at Nur Khan AB on November 9, 2018. [Photographer Unknown]
Nov 09, 2018 - A Pakistani Air Force C-130 (believed to be #4180) crash landed at Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi on Friday. [Read more...]
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