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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:TC-130G Hercules
    Last Military Serial:151891 USN
    Construction Number:3878
    Compressed ID:Lockheed TC-130G sn 151891 USN cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130G.

    January 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 151891.

    1964

    Transferred to Fleet Tactical Support Squadron 21 (VR-21), NAS Barbers Point, HI.
    Operated with markings: RZ

    Circa January 1966

    Transferred to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 (VQ-3), NAS Agana, Guam.

    May 1966

    Converted to an EC-130G.

    By January 1967

    Transferred to Airborne Early Warning Squadron 1 (VW-1), NAS Barbers Point, HI.
    Operated with markings: TE

    By July 1968

    Transferred to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 4 (VQ-4), Tinker AFB, OK.
    Operated with markings: TC-891

    8 July 1973


    Photographer: David A.Montgomery
    Notes: 151891 EC-130G Hercules of the US Navys VQ-4 is in transit through Prestwick, Scotland

    September 1976

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    May 1981

    Markings Applied: ASW

    August 1981

    Modified as testbed EC-130Q with TACAMO equipment. Was not redesignated.

    May 1990

    Converted to a TC-130G.

    1991

    Transferred to United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL.

    5 November 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Cecil Field Airshow

    15 November 2002

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 April 2010


    Photographer: Matt Maranto
    Notes: Fat Albert Sr. Served with the BLue Angels 1991-2002

    27 March 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States

    9 September 2014


    Photographer: Matt Maranto
    Notes: Interior Shot of Fat Albert Sr.


    Photographer: Unknown
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