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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:LC-130F Hercules
    Last Military Serial:148321 USN
    Construction Number:3567
    Compressed ID:Lockheed LC-130F sn 148321 USN cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    1960

    Constructed as a LC-130F.

    Circa 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-5925.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148321.

    May 1970


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: US Navy LC-130F Bu148321 with skis visited Perth, Western Australia in May 1970. It was operated by VXE-6 in Antarctica

    4 December 1971

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was damaged but was repairable. The military flight departed D-59 Station, Antarctica. The accident occurred at D-59 Station (Antarctica) while taking off. Narrative: The ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft was damaged during takeoff from site D59 in Antarctica, 125 miles south of the French station Dumont dUrville and about 850 miles from McMurdo Station. It had just completed the second of five supply flights to the French Carrefour traverse party, part of a U. S. /French glaciology project...
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    1988

    Recovered.
    Recovered after being buried by snow for 17 years in Antarctica.

    1996

    To National Science Foundation.

    29 March 1999

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AACF0193.

    Markings Applied: XD 03, 8321

    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At AMARC Davis Monthan bus tour, Tucson AZ.

    1 May 2005


    Photographer: RedRipper 24
    Notes: At the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) - Davis Monthan AFB, Tuscon, AZ


    Photographer: Bruce Willey
    Notes: Photo from the archives of my grandfather Bruce Willey, a C-130 pilot for the US Navy who flew missions to Antarctica as part of Operation Deep Freeze. I dont have a date handy.
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    Tom Tessier
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