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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:GC-130E Hercules
    Last Military Serial:69-6579 USAF
    Construction Number:4354
    Compressed ID:Lockheed GC-130E sn 69-6579 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dyess Memorial Museum and Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Abilene, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130E.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 69-6579.

    To 61st Tactical Airlift Squadron, Little Rock AFB, AR.

    By October 1978

    Transferred to 314th Tactical Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, AR.

    22 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 69-6579 - C-130E Hercules - US Air Force / 314TAW - George AFB - 22-Oct-78. Support aircraft for the Thunderbirds display team

    Transferred to 50th Airlift Squadron, 314th AW, Little Rock AFB, AR.

    Transferred to 61st AS, 314th AW, Little Rock AFB, AR.

    March 1998

    Redesignated as GC-130E.
    Assigned as a ground trainer to Dyess AFB, TX.

    Circa 2008

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    To Linear Air Park/Texas Museum of Military History, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    To Dyess AFB Airpark, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    To Dyess Memorial Museum and Dyess Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, Abilene, TX.
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    Photographer: Walter Nicolds
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
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     Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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