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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:Hercules C.1
    Last Military Serial:8X-CZ AOL
    Construction Number:4261
    Compressed ID:Lockheed Hercules C.1 sn 8X-CZ AOL...
    Latest Owner or Location:Linz-Horsching

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hercules C.1.

    Circa 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 66-13538.
    S/n allocated for production administrative purposes, aircraft did not serve with US forces.

    8 March 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV295.

    By September 1983

    Transferred to Lyneham Transport Wing, RAF Lyneham.
    Operated with markings: 295, 295

    24 September 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Alconbury Air Show

    24 September 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    22 September 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hercules C.1 of the Lyneham Transport Wing taxying at the 1990 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    17 September 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Hercules C.1 of the Lyneham Transport Wing took part in the flying display at the 1994 RAF Leuchars Airshow

    10 December 2015

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Osterreichische Luftstreitkrafte with s/n 8X-CZ.

    10 December 2015

    Transferred to Linz-Horsching.
    For use as spares.


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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group

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