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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:WC-130E Hercules
    Last Military Serial:61-2360 USAF
    Construction Number:3659
    Compressed ID:Lockheed WC-130E sn 61-2360 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aviation Warehouse, El Mirage Field, Adelanto, California

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    Event

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

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-2360.

    To 4442nd CCTG, Hurlburt Field, FL.

    Converted to a WC-130E.

    By March 1977

    Transferred to 54th WRS, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

    9 March 1977


    Photographer: Masumi Wada
    Notes: Photo taken at Yokota AB, Japan

    Transferred to 53rd WRS, Keesler Air Force Base, MS.

    Transferred to 815th WRS, 920th Weather Reconnaissance, AFRES, Keesler Air Force Base, MS.

    8 December 1993

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number AACF0143.

    To Western Aerospace Museum, Oakland, CA.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Aviation Warehouse, El Mirage Field, Adelanto, CA.
    Only the fuselage survives here.
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    21 November 2009


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at El Mirage, California, U.S.A
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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