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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130T Hercules
    Last Military Serial:164763 USMC
    Construction Number:5258
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130T sn 164763 USMC cn 5...
    Latest Owner or Location:NAS Fort Carswell Field, JRB Fort Worth, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    September 1991

    Constructed as a C-130T.

    1992

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 164763.

    1992

    Transferred to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 54 (VR-54), NAS/JRB New Orleans, LA.
    Operated with markings: CW

    Transferred to Naval Air Warfare Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: AD
    Operated for tanker trials for the F/A-18E/F.

    June 2002

    Transferred to U. S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Became the new FAT ALBERT to replace the retired Bu151891 as the support vehicle to the Blue Angels Display Team.

    7 June 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed at the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA. Showing the RATO bottles.

    7 June 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed at the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA. Showing the RATO bottles in action.

    15 October 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow - in the era before the USN ran out of JATO bottles.

    20 June 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA

    2 October 2010


    Photographer: Mike Hill
    Notes: At 2010 MCAS Miramar Air Show

    1 April 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: The new FAT ALBERT - replacing the retired Bu151891 as the Support vehicle to the Blue Angels Display Team - displaying at 2011 Sun n Fun

    1 April 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: The new FAT ALBERT - replacing the retired Bu151891 as the Support vehicle to the Blue Angels Display Team at 2011 Sun n Fun

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA. On take-off.

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA. Photo pass.

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the Quad Cities Air Show, Davenport, IA. Climb out after high speed pass.

    23 May 2019

    Transferred to NAS Fort Carswell Field, JRB Fort Worth, TX.
    For use as GIA.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     C-130.Net
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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