Muaddib67 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I was on the SCNS mod team at Little Rock afb in '91-'92, and was wondering how many E models were given this mod, and if any of the others from that team are on this board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Herk Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I think all of them...and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtackle71 Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 I'm pretty sure all of the active duty Es plus some of the ARF Es. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C130H2FE Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 All AD, Guard and Res E's, H1's and H2's that didn't have it installed during manufacture got SCNS, one B was done as a testbed but it was decided to not do the B's as they would be retired soon. All HC's and WC's got SCNS too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herkfixer Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 The C-130B model that got modified for SCNS was 59-1531 that was my bird when I was an ART at Peterson AFB, CO. with the 302nd Airlift Wing. I went out to Rickenbacker AFB, OH (Columbus) to put it back together and get it ready to return to Peterson. Since the "B" model was so different from the the E's & H's alot of the flight instruments did not work with SCNS. I had 2 factory technicians from LSI out for weeks going over prints and drawings figuring out the problems. Eventually they got all the bugs worked out of it and the system worked really well. Whenever our unit had a mission up near the "poles" or dewline they always requested my bird for the mission. Something about "grid" navigation was much easier, plus the dual inu's and gps. 73, Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 We had 59-1531 at Kelly. Good airplane. I think it was the last BII converted back to a B. It was at Majors Field for a long time. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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