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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:DC-130A Hercules
    Last Military Serial:158228 USN
    Construction Number:3048
    Compressed ID:Lockheed DC-130A sn 158228 USN cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:United Aeronautical Corporation, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0021.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158228 as a DC-130A.

    Markings Applied: UF

    4 October 1975


    Photographer: Peter B Lewis

    8 June 1979

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2G003.

    March 2000

    Engines removed.

    August 2002

    Sold.

    December 2002

    To Minden Corp., Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona, United States.

    To United Aeronautical Corporation, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Only the fuselage survives here.
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    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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