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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130A-6-LM Hercules
    Last Military Serial:56-0473 USAF
    Construction Number:3081
    Last Civil Registration:N473TM
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130A-6-LM sn 56-0473 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum Foundation Inc, Atwater, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A-6-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.

    March 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0473.

    From 1957 to Circa 1960

    Transferred to 774th Troop Carrier Squadron, 463rd Troop Carrier Wing, Ardmore AFB, OK.
    Was Part of the Four Horsemen Demonstration Team.

    Circa 1967

    Transferred to 35th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Naha Air Base, Okinawa.

    Transferred to 303rd Tactical Airlift Squadron, Richards-Gebaur AFB, MO.

    By May 1978

    Transferred to 95th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 440th Tactical Airlift Wing, General Mitchell Airport, Milwaukee, WI.

    By 1986

    Transferred to 64th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 928th Airlift Wing, (AFRES), OHare Airport, Chicago, IL.

    17 May 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed at Chicago, OHare Airport during open house

    23 May 1989

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR473TM (C-130A, 56-473) issued.

    18 August 1989

    To T B M Inc, Redmond, OR with new c/r N473TM.

    18 August 1989

    To T B M Inc, Tulare, CA keeping c/r N473TM.

    Operated as fire service #63.

    15 June 2002


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich

    10 February 2010

    To T B M Inc, Visalia, CA keeping c/r N473TM.

    Based at Sequoia Field Airport, Visalia, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    21 March 2012

    To T B M Inc, Tulare, CA keeping c/r N473TM.

    By 3 May 2014


    Photographer: Duncan Kirk

    13 March 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N473TM.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Atwater, CA.

    14 May 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N473TM.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Atwater, CA.

    18 June 2015

    To Castle Air Museum Foundation Inc, Atwater, CA keeping c/r N473TM.

    23 November 2015

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Castle Air Museum Foundation Inc, Atwater, CA.

    21 January 2016

    Civil registration, N473TM, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     C-130 Hercules.net
    C-130.Net
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    The Troop Carrier/Tactical Airlift Association
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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