avio@superherc Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 How to find out the date of manufacture of hercules?The label placed at the crew bunk mention a date of acceptance, is it the same as date of manufacture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 As far as I know, the acceptance date is as close as you are going to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3_Super_Bee Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 As Casey stated. The acceptance date is pretty much the official "born on" date. If you want to get closer to the actual date (for "J" models anyway, which is my experience) you can go about 4 to 5 months prior to the acceptance date. When we roll her out of the B-1 building, she is pretty much a complete aircraft without paint. Between paint & flight test it takes about 4 or 5 months from the time we roll out of B-1 to acceptance. But aircraft don't always get accepted in order of build either. Lockheed uses "Delivered" aircraft numbers as milestones. They will say this aircraft is the 200th delivered. Which not necessarily means it was the 200th built. For instance. The 200th "J" model delivered was also the first MC-130J delivered. It was in fact though the 199th "J" model to roll off the assembly line. The one that rolled off the line at 202 was the 199th delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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