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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:TC-130Q Hercules
    Last Military Serial:159348 USN
    Construction Number:4601
    Compressed ID:Lockheed TC-130Q sn 159348 USN cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tinker AFB (south side), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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    Constructed as an EC-130Q-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.
    A C-1H built for the USN as a EC-130Q

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159348.

    From 1976 to 1992

    Transferred to VQ-4, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).
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    Converted to a TC-130Q.
    TACAMO communications removed.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159348.

    Circa February 1991

    Transferred to VR-22.
    Loaned during Desert Storm.

    25 May 1991

    It is not known whether this aircraft was already assigned to VR-22 at this time.
    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Patuxent River Airshow

    From 1992 to 1995

    Transferred to VXE-6.
    Participated in Operation Deep Freeze as a trash hauler.

    From 1992 to 1995

    Markings Applied: 00, XE

    Placed on display with Tinker AFB (south side), Oklahoma City, OK.
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    Restored.
    Restored for display as an EC-130Q.

    17 July 2020


    Photographer: Luis Sanchez
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