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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130A Hercules
    Last Military Serial:56-0493 USAF
    Construction Number:3101
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130A sn 56-0493 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A-7-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0493.

    Transferred to 817th TCS, 315th AD, Naha AB, Okinawa, Japan.

    Converted to a JC-130A.
    Temporary conversion for flight test operations; used to recover drones and spy satellite film capsules.

    Converted to a RC-130.
    Was one of two JC-130As converted to the RC-130S with the Battlefield Illumination Airborne System (BIAS) for night search-and rescue missions.

    From 1970 to 1972

    Transferred to 446th TAW, AFRES, Ellington Air Force Base, TX.

    After 1972

    Converted to a C-130A.

    By 1974

    Transferred to 17th TAW, 21st Composite Wing, Elmendorf AFB, AK.

    Circa 1974


    Photographer: SMSGT. Dana Nichols (USAF Retire
    Notes: Photo taken from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska

    Transferred to 704th TAS, 924th TAG, AFRES, Ellington Air Force Base, TX.

    By May 1985

    Transferred to 155th TAS, 164th TAG, Tennessee ANG, Memphis MAP, TN.

    By January 1988

    Transferred to 162D TFG, Arizona ANG, Tucson ANGB, AZ.
    Operated with markings: City of Tucson, ARIZONA AIR GUARD
    Served as the Operational Support Aircraft (OSA) for the 162d. Callsign was Gypsy 93.

    May 1990

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CF089.

    January 1992

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    9 September 2008


    Photographer: Richard Lane

    2023


    Photographer: Anonymous via Max Sabin
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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