flynavymike

Good morning! Navy BuNo 151891 was the last of four sequentially numbered EC-130G model aircraft delivered to the Navy to kick off the "TACAMO" airborne radio relay mission in 1968. 151888 and 151889 flew the circuit for many years; 151889 was shared between the Atlantic & Pacific VQ squadrons. 151890 was "struck" in 1972 when it bellied in to a cornfield on the Maryland eastern shore with a port wing fire following the #1 fuel tank explosion. All hands survived. 151891 was pulled out of the circuit and assigned to the Naval Air Test Center at Pax River for the rest of its TACAMO life, then stripped out for a replacement E-6A Mercury and became a TC-130G. 151891 is indeed on static display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in P-Cola. Good info and thx, Jansen.