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Can anyone verify the info we have on Canadian E models?

I have 19 Left

5 of these Withdrawn from use

311, 314,315,317,326

I got a picture of 314 in the Museum at Trenton

No info on 311 or 317

315 reported on Wikipedia as in a Museum, reported by Lars as a ground trainer.

326 reported as a ground trainer Abbotsford

Have anymore been grounded?

Can anyone verify the fates of the grounded Herks?

Thanks

Bob

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A very good day to you. Do you have 308 on your list! I beleive it just got retired or it will be soon. I beleive this one was overseas.war. Is 305 still in the circuit!!

The last list I saw had 305 and 308 still flying.

Bob

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From CodeOne: http://www.codeonemagazine.org/article.html?item_id=48

Canada’s E-models have logged more flying hours than any comparable Hercules in the world. In his remarks, MacKay noted, “I recently flew in a forty-three-year-old E-model aircraft in Afghanistan that had approximately 50,000 flight hours on it.”

With the arrival of the Super Hercules, the CC-130E fleet will eventually be retired. Six of the nineteen E-models in the Canadian fleet have already concluded their flying careers and have been parked, while several more of the older aircraft are literally within dozens of flight hours of reaching the end of their service lives.

So any thoughts on which one is next? Anyone know which are really close to the 50k mark? My last sighting of 130323 was in July of 2009, while my information on 130319 and 130320 trails off after April and May. I'm also wondering which E-model Mackey rode on...

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From the information I've seen, all of the 19 E models will be replaced by the 17 J models by 01 APR 2012. All of the SAR taskings will be given to the 13 H models, which are supposed to last until 2017.

What I know of the H fleet:

2x H73 40k EBH, requires Center Wing Replacement

2x H73 30k EBH, requires Center Wing Replacement

2x H84 30k EBH

5x H90(T) 20k EBH

2X H-30 10k EBH

EBH=Equivalent Baseline Hours

SAR taskings apparently have a severity rating of 3.

This is the H fleet:

130332 1975 H73

130333 1975 H73

130334 1985 H84

130335 1985 H84

130336 1975 H73

130337 1975 H73

130338 1991 Tanker

130339 1991 Tanker

130340 1991 Tanker

130341 1991 Tanker

130342 1991 Tanker

130343 1997 Stretch

130344 1997 Stretch

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I asked around, and apparently one of the old E model herks is rumored to end up in the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is the second largest aviation museum in Canada and is adjacent to the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, which shares facilities with CFB Winnipeg.

If 130306 is time expired and at CFB Winnipeg it makes sense for them to donate it to the Museum, especially since the base and the museum are directly connected via a taxiway.

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130603 is supposed to be delivered next week, and they are trying to get a couple more birds delivered to boost the Q3 numbers by the end of the month.

Once we get 603, the next four Canadian aircraft are due in January. They are currently in Final Assembly in B-1.

5649 130606

5650 130607

5651 130608

5652 130609

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We have 2 down for maintenance right now, and even if we get all these deliveries on time, doesn't matter if we don't have crews to fly them.

We don't have a school house to train Pilots and Loads in Trenton until 2012 and are still dependant upon JMATS in LR.

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We have 2 down for maintenance right now, and even if we get all these deliveries on time, doesn't matter if we don't have crews to fly them.

We don't have a school house to train Pilots and Loads in Trenton until 2012 and are still dependant upon JMATS in LR.

Are you talking about 601 and 602? I heard they need to go back to Marietta for some for the mods that 603 and 605 have. Apparently 604 only has some of those and needs to go back as well?

I thought the new Air Mobility Training Centre that will include C-130J simulators is expected to open by spring 2011?

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God no!!

2011?? Way too soon!! The facility is coming along nicely. We wont even have the device checkouts in the factory done until sometime in June. April 2011 is when they can start moving items into the facility but it is not scheduled to start ops until 2012.

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Canada has 19 E model Hercules aircraft that have or will be taken out of service by April 2012.

130314 has already been donated to the National Air Force Museum at CFB Trenton. 313 is slated for the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum, and 306 is likely to go to the Western Canada Aviation Museum.

This is the list of museums I have that are most likely to get a Herk:

Aero Space Museum, Calgary

Alberta Aviation Museum, Edmonton

Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Halifax

Canada Aviation and Space Museum Ottawa, ON

Canadian Air & Space Museum, Toronto

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Hamilton, ON

Canadian Museum of Flight, Langley BC

Cold Lake Air Force Museum

Comox Air Force Museum

Manitoba Military Aviation Museum

If you are able to get confirmation please post.

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