casey Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Over the next six months, the 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell Air Force Base will be replacing their fleet of C-130 cargo aircraft with eight newer planes. The first plane arrived Thursday night at Maxwell from New York. The 908th, Alabama's only Reserve unit, has been flying the same Lockheed C-130 Hercules for the last three decades. The C-130 is a four-engine turboprop transport plane, commonly known as the "work horse of the Air Force." Over the next six months, the 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell Air Force Base will be replacing their fleet of C-130 cargo aircraft with eight newer planes. The first plane arrived Thursday night at Maxwell from New York. The 908th, Alabama's only Reserve unit, has been flying the same Lockheed C-130 Hercules for the last three decades. The C-130 is a four-engine turboprop transport plane, commonly known as the "work horse of the Air Force." Col. Jerry Lobb, spokesman for the 908th, confirmed Wednesday that the wing will be getting an upgrade with newer planes that have "less years, less miles and less hours" on them. The 908th planes have about 11,000 flying hours on each of them. "Our aircraft happen to be the oldest in the Air Force inventory," Lobb said. "That's why we were selected by the Air Force for an upgrade." The 914th Airlift Wing out of Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, New York, is getting a new mission and will be replacing their current C-130s with the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, a military aerial refueling aircraft. Their old C-130s that are the same make and model as the ones used by the 908th, but are four to six years newer will be flown to Montgomery. The eight incoming planes will replace the eight the 908th currently have – including two dubbed "Roll Tide" and "War Eagle" – that carry the state's college football rivals' respective logos. The 908th's old, but still operational, planes will be sent to the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, where the Air Force's old military planes are kept for parts. Source: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/dispatch/2017/01/12/first-8-new-aircraft-land-908th-airlift-wing-tonight/96486452/ View full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMPTestFE Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Oldest in the inventory? Really....74-1671 just logged two combat missions yesterday, bringing it's airframe hours to around 24,440. I don't think those H2's at Maxwell are older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Interesting numbers as of last month Oldest USAF Herk in years 64-14852 HC-130P at Patrick Hi time USAF Herk 65-0989 EC-130H at DM 28385 hours Oldest H in years 74-1659 at Yokota (about 24256 Hours) Hi time H 74-2067 at Yokota 25997 I really don't understand why these H models with new wings are going right to the scrap areas at AMARG, when the E models are in storage. Just this month 85-0038 and 0042 went to AMARG. Seems like they would be primo for Foreign Military Sales. Maybe Lockheed wants to sell J's to countries that can't afford them. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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