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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130F Hercules
    Last Military Serial:410 SAAF
    Construction Number:3636
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130F sn 410 SAAF cn 3636...
    Latest Owner or Location:South African Air Force

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    Dates

    Event

    1961

    Constructed as a GV-1U.

    December 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149787 and operated with these markings: 787.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as C-130F.

    June 1981


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: US Navy VRC-50 Squadron coded RG based at NAS Subic Bay in the Philippines regularly sent aircraft to Perth in support of US aircraft carriers and other vessels when their crews were on shore leave in Perth. C-130F Bu149787 RG787 in June 1981

    10 August 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2G0022.

    8 January 1997

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 410.

    June 1998


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: Was never a flyable aircraft for the South African AF. Stored for spare parts starting 1998.

    1999

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Reduced to spares and derelict at Waterkloof AB, SAAF.
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