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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:GC-130A Hercules
    Last Military Serial:55-0037 USAF
    Construction Number:3064
    Compressed ID:Lockheed GC-130A sn 55-0037 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Missouri Military History, Missouri National Guard, Jefferson City, Missouri

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    Dates

    Event

    April 1957

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

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0037.

    From Circa August 1958 to Circa December 1958

    Transferred to 773rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 483rd Troop Carrier Wing, 315th Air Division, Tachikawa Air Base, Japan.

    Circa January 1959

    Transferred to 815th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Tachikawa AB, Japan.

    From August 1966 to March 1971

    Transferred to 35th Tactical Air Lift Squadron, 374th Troop Carrier Wing, Naha AB, Okinawa.

    1971

    Transferred to 109th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Minnesota ANG, Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport.

    April 1973

    Involved in an incident.
    Belly-landed at Duluth, MN. Repaired.

    Transferred to 167th Tactical Airlift Squadron, West Virginia ANG, Shepherd Field (later Eastern WV Regional Airport), Martinsburg, WV.

    Circa 1976

    Transferred to 180th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Missouri ANG, Rosecrans Memorial Airport, Saint Joseph, MO.

    May 1984

    Transferred to Chanute Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL.

    May 1984

    Redesignated as GC-130A.

    June 1990

    Placed on display.
    Placed on display in Thunderbird Air Park, Chanute AFB.

    By 1993

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By June 1993

    Loaned to Chanute Air Museum, Chanute AFB (formerly), Rantoul, IL.
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    19 September 1995


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    3 August 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    20 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 October 2015

    Chanute Museum closed.

    May 2016

    To Museum of Missouri Military History, Missouri National Guard, Jefferson City, MO.
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    5 September 2018


    Photographer: Timothy Aanerud
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    C-130 Hercules.net
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    The Missouri National Guard
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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