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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:RC-130A Hercules
    Construction Number:3224
    Last Civil Registration:N9539G
    Compressed ID:Lockheed RC-130A cn 3224 cr N9539G
    Latest Owner or Location:Aero Postale de Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A.
    Lockheed C-130A 182A3224

    Converted to a RC-130A.

    Transferred to 1370THPMW.

    Transferred to 704thtas AFRES.

    26 May 1976

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CF012.

    To DPDO.

    13 May 1981

    To Desert Air Parts, Tucson, AZ.

    12 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo - in storage at Pinal Air Park, Marana, Arizona

    To Time Avn, Sun Valley, CA with new c/r N9539Q.

    To unknown owner with c/r N3226B (C-130A, 57517).

    October 1990


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler Memorial, AZ

    October 1990


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler-Memorial, AZ

    15 November 1990

    Civil registration, N3226B, cancelled.
    Exported to Panama.

    December 1990

    To unknown owner with c/r HP-1162TLN.

    23 February 1992


    Photographer: Augusto Gomez
    Notes: Photo taken at Mexico city

    March 1996


    Photographer: Augusto Gomez
    Notes: Photographed at Mexico city, Operating for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees CNUR initials

    To Aero Postale de Mexico with new c/r XA-RSH.

    To unknown owner with c/r N9539G (C-130A, 182A3224).

    25 November 2005


    Photographer: Andre DuPont Mexico Air Spotter MAS
    Notes: Betzy Stored at MMMX
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