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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:HC-130P Hercules
    Last Military Serial:65-0988 USAF
    Construction Number:4143
    Latest Owner or Location:Moody Heritage Park, Moody AFB, Valdosta, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HC-130P.

    Circa 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 65-0988.

    To Air Force Systems Command.
    Used for testing helicopter air to air refueling trials.

    By April 1983

    Transferred to 102D ARRS, 106th ARG, New York ANG, Suffolk County ANGB, NY.

    March 1992

    Transferred to 102D RQS, 106th RG, New York ANG, Suffolk County ANGB, NY.

    By July 1997

    Transferred to 71st RQS, 347th RG, Moody AFB, GA.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: HC-130P Hercules, callsign King 88, of 71st Rescue Squadron at Moody AFB on display at the 1997 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    By May 2015

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    To Moody Heritage Park, Moody AFB, Valdosta, GA.
    View the Location Dossier

    21 July 2022


    Photographer: Nate Czlapinski

    21 July 2022


    Photographer: Nate Czlapinski
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