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Hey Sonny,

How are you doing? Just saw Dan Saunders,Tom Nelson and Tom Britt. We had a few beers. What is new with you?

I heard that a couple of C-130's were parked at Cubi Point so I drove out there to take a look. They are MC-130J's belonging to the 17thSOS here for Balikatan 2018. Tails are # 5761 and # 5762.

It is on the tail

44J = USAF C-130J-30

47J = Canada CC-130J

50J = India

72J = USMC KC-130J

73J = USAF HC/MC-130J

Hey Roy,

My girlfriend left to attended her son's graduation from Army basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood. Her flight to St. Louis, via ATL, on Delta was canceled on the Tuesday and she was rebooked on another flight on the same day -- also canceled. She finally got there yesterday (Wednesday) and is watching him graduate today. They told her that the post had been on lock-down on Tuesday -- no one could get on or off the base. What a freekin' horror story. All that time, it was in the high 70's here in Tampa!!!

Another hijacked thread, but to get back to the subject, I've heard that there's a retired 772nd FE at Dyess that maintains the A-model there -- a little skinny guy named Leslie Squires. You remember him, Roy? Can anybody confirm?

Don R.

Don,

I remember flying occasionally with Les Squires in the 772nd, though I didn't know he was in the area or maintaining the airplane. I don't remember any of his history prior to the 772nd. Visited Dyess last November and was as much amazed about what had changed as I was about what was still the same, including Abilene. The big new building housing the C-130 squadrons sets over the site where the 772nd and 773rd buildings used to be.

Jim

Jim, I was up at Dobbins today around 3:30 PM and I guess it was you in that beautiful new gray bird flying downwind...congrats on providing great airframe to the AF.

Muff

Here is a better picture

Jim, I was up at Dobbins today around 3:30 PM and I guess it was you in that beautiful new gray bird flying downwind...congrats on providing great airframe to the AF.

Muff

Muff,

That was most likely us, we were coming into MGE about that time. I don't think another Herc was in the pattern. Pretty good looking airplane, I think.

Skip, anybody told Flame and Dirt Bag about # 7785,she was their favorite? My last flight before retiring was on her from Udon-Thanni to Kadena summer of '94. 10.5 hours on 3 motors. Will never forget bagging a motor while on the boom. Was also on # 567 at Rio-Hato. When, if my memory serves me right, you and Harvey hit the tree and departed with only 3 turning. We spent the rest of the night FARRP, ing the little birds then left without enough gas to get home unless the the tanker was still around. Thankfully the 135 was still hanging around.

Here is a close-up side view of 551's teeth, and a few motley crew dogs...Hi, Skip...

John

Motely? John you know better, we were just relaxing our grooming standards.

Completed company production flight certification today. Will be turned over to DCMA for next flight. Logged 3+50 hours.

We logged 4+42 on her today for a 1st production and "green" software flight regression. Hopefully will finish her tomorrow. Fine airplane!

Lockheed-Martin Aero, Marietta, GA has a job opening for a C-130J loadmaster. The position and description is listed on the Lockheed-Martin website under # 165887BR. The position is in the Flight Operations Dept.

Is this the information you are you looking for?

But the question is what serial goes with what C/N???

06-8610 RS C-130J-30 5621 37th AS act dec09 23dec09

06-8611 RS C-130J-30 5622 37th AS act dec09 dec09

06-8612 RS C-130J-30 5623 37th AS act dec09

08-8602 RS C-130J-30 5611/37 37th AS act jun09 dec09

08-8603 RS C-130J-30 5613 37th AS act jun09 dec09

08-8604 RS C-130J-30 5612 37th AS act jun09 dec09

08-8605 RS C-130J-30 5615 37th AS act dec09

08-8606 RS C-130J-30 5614 37th AS act sep09 dec09

Note

08-8602 was seen in jun 09 with "86 OG" markings

08-8601 has "86AW" markings

08-8603 has "37 AS" marking

The first date means when people/ airplane spotters first reported it seen.

and last was the last time it was reported.

I got this info out of the scramble data base

Look at www.scramble.nl and look in database

It is a rich database and it's very much up to date.

Bonzo

PS 06-8610 callsign herky98 and 06-8612 callsign herky99 came in to RS on dec 23 2009 last 4 remain for 2010

here is the link

http://www.scramble.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=58896

It is a pain in the butt keeping the -J tails straight, since each unit gets individual numbers.

The LAC production numbers for the last three C-130J's delivered to Ramstein are # 5619/20/21.

Why do you think Lockheed isn't working on developing a new aircraft for the future? As far -J bashing, hasn't it proven itself to be a good aircraft? So what if Lockheed has grown and diversified, they still have a pretty successful aeronautical division that continues to make damn good airplanes. So whats the beef with a company making a profit? Lockheed went out on limb with the -J development and no customers.

Don,

Maybe an Airborne Missions Systems Specialist is what they are calling Radio Operators these days?