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63-7815 and 7816


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Back a few years ago, when 193SOS gave up its E\'s for J\'s, the two Senior Hunter aircraft, the ones without the huge radio antennas, moved to Hurlburt. I had heard that AFSOC, SOCOM was going to use them as some sort of Command Post. I just heard from the UK that 63-7816 was over there and was being used as a command post/control center for AFSOC RPV\'s. I never heard of a flying RPV Command Post. Is that true, or just a guess? What are 7815 and 7816 used for?

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Bob

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Bob,

Those aircraft have been re-designated as C-130E\'s and are basically being used like any slick would be used, log runs, MRT ferry and training. Yes the aircraft has some extra wiring and antennas onboard from when they were assigned to the 193rd, but these aircraft are considered backup inventory, so have no funded mission. There have been efforts in the past to fund these as training aircraft, but, so far has never made the final cut.

I think their future is limited from what I understand, I believe congress has decided to purge all C-130E\'s by FY14. Maybe someone from the AMC world can comment on that?

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