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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:DC-130A Hercules
    Last Military Serial:UF-496 USN
    Construction Number:3203
    Compressed ID:Lockheed DC-130A sn UF-496 USN cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology - Storage, NAWS China Lake / Armitage Field, Ridgecrest, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A-45-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.

    August 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-0496.

    By March 1963

    Converted to a DC-130A.

    By March 1963

    To 3225th Drone Squadron, Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman AFB, NM.

    By July 1968

    Transferred to 4472D CCTS, 4453rd CCTW, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

    From Circa 1971 to After April 1977

    Transferred to 11th TDS, 432D TDG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona,.
    Operated with markings: DF

    By April 1977

    Markings Applied: DM

    April 1977


    Photographer: Doug Barbier
    Notes: Photo taken at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ. Note the AQM-34 Firebee underneath the left wing.

    9 January 1979

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CF025.

    March 1979

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo UF-496.

    14 March 1979

    Transferred to VC-3.
    Operated by Flight Systems Inc. on behalf of the USN.

    November 1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Santa Barbara Airport, CA.

    March 1986


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Mojave airport, California.

    1 February 1990


    Photographer: unknown

    By March 1990

    To AVTEL Flight Test Inc.
    Operated by AVTEL Flight Test Inc on behalf of the USN.

    By October 2005

    To RoCAF Lake, CA.

    To Weapons Survivability Lab, NCC China Lake (North), Ridgecrest, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    To United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology-Storage, NAWS China Lake/Armitage Field, Ridgecrest, CA.
    View the Location Dossier
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