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$90M Support contract for Indian C-130J's Sep 30, 2020 - The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of India of items and services to extend follow-on support for their fleet of C-130J Super Hercules aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $90 million. [Read more...]	USMC KC-130J and F-35B collide over California Sep 29, 2020 - A USMC KC-130J #166765 and F-35B from VMFA-121 collided during a refueling exercise around 16:00hrs local time over Southern California. The F-35 crashed near Naval Air Facility El Centro and the KC-130 made a forced landing in a farm field near the airport in Thermal. All the aircrew survived. [Read more...]

First AC-130J all-Reserve crew Sep 23, 2020 - On June 5, 2020, a 5th Special Operations Squadron crew flew an all-Reserve AC-130 mission for the first time in 25 years on an AC-130J Ghostrider. The last fully Reserve manned AC-130 mission was flown in 1995 on an AC-130A Spectre. [Read more...]	Bangladesh Air Force receives 3rd C-130J aircraft Sep 17, 2020 - The third C-130J aircraft arrived at Bangladesh Air Force Base Bangabandhu in Dhaka on Thursday after a successful ferry flight from the United Kingdom by BAF aircrew. [Read more...]
Cameroon Air Force C-130H damaged after overshooting runway Aug 04, 2020 - Cameroon's Ministry of Defence has confirmed one of its C-130 Hercules transport aircraft sustained damaged after over shooting the runway in the countries Northern city of Maroua on August 2nd. [Read more...]	Yokota receives a C-130J WST simulator Jul 27, 2020 - After 2 years of construction, what appears a large white box with cables now provides Yokota Air Base, Japan with a fully functional C-130J Super Hercules Weapons System Training simulator. [Read more...]
Dyess, Little Rock conduct largest formation flight in C-130J history Jul 16, 2020 - The C-130 community rewrote history July 14, successfully piloting the largest formation flight ever of C-130J Super Hercules aircraft in support of a Joint Forcible Entry exercise over Dyess Air Force Base and Big Bend, Texas. [Read more...]	4th SOS, AMU make history with AC-130U Jun 26, 2020 - An AC-130U Spooky gunship named ‘Big Daddy’ made history by being the first Spooky to ever receive a black letter initial on its status page before a flight, June 18, 2020. [Read more...]
The 415th AMU celebrates their first ‘Black Letter’ aircraft Jun 15, 2020 - The 415th Aircraft Maintenance Unit launched its first ‘Black Letter’ aircraft June 9, 2020, on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, making maintenance history. [Read more...]	"Hollywood Guard" reaches milestone with 6-ship formation flight Jun 13, 2020 - Amid the challenges serving in the Air National Guard during the pandemic known as COVID-19, California Air National Guard maintainers from the 146 MXG and aircrew from the 115th AS collaborated to accomplish the launching of 6 C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for the first time in over 20 years on May 26, 2020. [Read more...]

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