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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:EC-130E Command Solo
    Last Military Serial:63-7773 USAF
    Construction Number:3839
    Compressed ID:Lockheed EC-130E sn 63-7773 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Muir AAF, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 63-7773.

    Converted to an EC-130E.

    By June 1981

    Transferred to 198th ECS, PA ANG, Harrisburg IAP, PA.

    By June 1981

    Markings Applied: PA

    26 June 1981


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: On display at the 1981 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire - serving with 193rd Electronic Combat Squadron Pennsylvania ANG at Harrisburg.

    27 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT

    29 June 1981


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Departing Greenham Common.

    By July 1989

    Transferred to 193rd ECS, 193rd SOG, PA ANG, Harrisburg Apt, PA.

    22 July 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford IAT

    22 July 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    22 July 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By 1995

    Transferred to Pennsylvania ANG, 193rd Special Operations Wing, Middletown, PA.
    Operated exclusively by the 193rd Special Operations Wing.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT

    Served in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

    January 2006

    Last operational sortie.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    August 2006

    Last flight.
    Flown to Muir Army Airfield, and became the largest aircraft to land a Fort Indiantown Gap at that time.

    October 2006

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    Loaned to PA Ang (Middletown), 193 MXG/CC, Middletown, PA.

    By 29 March 2007

    Placed on display with Muir AAF, Harrisburg, PA.
    This is the only remaining EC-130E Command Solo.
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    29 March 2007


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    13 December 2013


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: This one-of-a-kind Hercules adaptation enjoyed a 30-year career as a broadcast platform; a plaque gives further information on this unique aircraft of the 193rd Special Operations Wing out of Pennsylvania, This machine is on display on the campus of the Pennsylvania National Guard Military Museum, Ft. Indiantown Gap, Muir AFB, Annville, PA.

    11 September 2023


    Photographer: Peter Clukey

    11 September 2023


    Photographer: Peter Clukey
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Bill Kistler
    Robert Nichols
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