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First C-130H upgraded by ST Aerospace redelivered to Oman
RAFO C-130H #501 from 16 sqn is parked on the flightline starting up its engines for another sortie. [RAFO photo]
Feb 14, 2014 - Last week ST Aerospace redelivered its first C-130 modernization for an export customer. Turnaround time on the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) C-130H was only seven months, including a full depot overhaul. [Read more...]
Algerian C-130 Hercules crashes killing over 70
AAF C-130H #4928 from 2 ETTL is coming in for landing at Cigli AB in June of 2011. [Photo by Mario Michels]
Feb 11, 2014 - A C-130 transport plane belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashed today in the East of the country. Officials have told the press that over 70 people on board were killed, with only one survivor. [Read more...]
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AC-130J completes first test flight
The newly created AC-130J Ghostrider takes to the air during its first official sortie on January 31 at Eglin AFB. The AFSOC MC-130J arrived at Eglin in January 2013 to begin the modification process for the AC-130J, whose primary mission is close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance. [USAF photo by Sara Vidoni]
Feb 07, 2014 - After more than a year of modification maintenance, the newly created AC-130J Ghostrider took to the skies for the first time as a gunship on January 31, 2014. [Read more...]
MC-130P Combat Shadow takes final flight in UK
From left, Maj. Drew Lazar, copilot, Lt. Col. Scott Hartman, aircraft commander, and TSgt. Eric Kleser, flight engineer, of the last 67th SOS MC-130P Combat Shadow #66-0215, fly the aircraft’s final flight in the UK on January 24, 2014. The Combat Shadow is the last of its kind to leave the European theater. Its departure marks the final step of Special Operations Command Europe's transition from the Combat Shadow to the MC-130J Commando II. [USAF photo by SrA Kate Maurer]
Feb 05, 2014 - The last MC-130P Combat Shadow assigned to the 67th Special Operations Squadron here took its final flight while based in the U.K. Jan. 24, 2014, visiting several locations the 67th SOS has called home in the past. [Read more...]
Maintainers prepare Spectre for final determination
SSgt. Seth Rosbrugh & A1C Thomas Orton-McIntyre, 27 SOMXS armament technicians, remove a 105 mm blast diffuser from the AC-130H Spectre. [USAF photo by A1C Eboni Reece]
Feb 04, 2014 - After more than 40 years of providing close air support, air interdiction and force protection for special operations forces, the preparation for the eventual retirement and phase out of the AC-130H Spectre, recognized as "world's deadliest conventional weapon" by the Military Channel and Fox News, has begun. [Read more...]
Lockheed Martin files for FAA type design update - LM-100J
Production Operations team members work on a wing that is part of the first LM-100J commercial freighter at the Lockheed Martin site in Marietta, Georgia. The LM-100J is the commercial variant of the proven C-130J Super Hercules. [Lockheed Martin photo by Todd R. McQueen]
Feb 04, 2014 - Lockheed Martin officials submitted a Program Notification Letter to the Federal Aviation Administration on January 21, 2014, for a type design update for the Lockheed Martin Model L-382J airplane, a civil-certified variant of the proven C-130J Super Hercules to be marketed as the LM-100J. [Read more...]
Colorado Airmen, C-130 return from Africa missions
Soldiers of the East Africa Response Force load onto USAF C-130H # 94-7320 at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, to support an ordered departure in Juba, South Sudan December 18, 2013. At the request of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense directed C-130 aircraft from the 731st Airlift Squadron, to move personnel from Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to Nairobi, Kenya. [USAF photo by Tech. Sgt. Micah Theurich]
Jan 28, 2014 - An Air Force Reserve Command C-130 and approximately 30 Airmen returned Jan. 15 to Peterson AFB, Colorado after providing airlift support as part of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa mission. [Read more...]
Belgian C-130 to support French in Central African Republic
BAF C-130H #CH-11 [BAF photo]
Jan 18, 2014 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 (#71-1803) in service with 15th Air Transport Wing has left Melsbroek Military Airport for the Gabonese capital Libreville to offer air support to the French intervention force in the Central African Republic. [Read more...]
Marshall ADG wins Dutch C-130 support work
RNlAF C-130H-30 G-273 arrives at McChord AFB, Washington on July 16, 2007. Rodeo 2007, hosted by Air Mobility Command, is a readiness competition of U.S. and international mobility forces. [USAF photo by Senior Airman Jacqueline Kabluyen]
Jan 16, 2014 - Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has been awarded a long-term contract by the Netherlands Defence Material Organisation. They will support a number of systems on the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s newly modernized fleet of Hercules C-130s under a new contract announced on 15 January. [Read more...]
C-130H, end of an era in Afghanistan
Staff Sgt. David Billings does an inspection of the wings of a C-130H Hercules Jan. 9, 2013, before his flight out of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Billings was on the first of the C-130H model aircraft to permanently relocate out of Bagram to make room for the newer C-130J model aircraft. Billings is a C-130 flight engineer. [USAF photo/Senior Master Sgt. Gary J. Rihn]
Jan 13, 2014 - All good things don't necessarily need to come to an end; sometimes they are just replaced by something even better.Such is the case with the venerable C-130H Hercules model aircraft at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. [Read more...]
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