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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:MC-130E Combat Talon
    Last Military Serial:64-0561 USAF
    Construction Number:4065
    Compressed ID:Lockheed MC-130E sn 64-0561 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 64-0561.

    Circa 1966

    Converted to a MC-130E.

    By May 1983

    Transferred to 7th SOS, 39th SOW, Rhein Main AB, FRG.

    28 May 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 83

    By 1994

    Transferred to 8th SOS, 16th SOW, Hurlbert Field AFB FL.

    28 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On finals to Fairford.Note the Fulton recovery gear on the nose.

    28 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: This pallet contains a really large bomb, it would have been dropped over woodland to create a clearing large enough for a helicopter to land a pick up downed aircrew.

    30 July 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: MC-130E Combat Talon 1, named Lucky 7, of 8th Special Operations Squadron on display at the 1994 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    Transferred to 711th SOS, 919th SOW, Duke Field, FL.

    19 September 2012

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 5752.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
    Ken Videan
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