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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130A Hercules
    Last Military Serial:53-3133 USAF
    Construction Number:3005
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130A sn 53-3133 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-3133.

    1976

    New serial number assigned: CF021 MASDC and operated with the markings: 0-33133

    11 October 1980


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 53-3133 Lockheed NC-130A Hercules USAF, ASD marks. One of the first production batch of Hercules, with the original nose profile. Used as a trials aircraft. - Withdrawn at MASDC, park code CF021.

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Sold to National Aircraft for scrap.

    26 July 2010


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: A pair of dismembered C-130 noses in ARM/ DMI near AMARC, Tucson, AZ. Closest is NC-130A 53-3133- the fifth Hercules built. The camo a/c is 56-0470, another C-130A stored as CF0071 and last flying with 139 TAS, New York ANG.
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