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LC-130F 148319 with the forward cargo door open on the ramp in Christchurch, NZ in the early 60's. The three Navy LC-130F's still have the structure, hydraulic lines, pump, reservoir, actuators and locks. At some point in time a couple of the aircraft were re-skinned, you can no longer see the forward door from the outside. The doors were bolted closed (bolts through the door and door frame), the locks were bolted closed.

U.S. Marine Corps plans to convert KC-130J tankers into gunships By Stephen Trimble Flight International 02/04/09 The U.S. Marine Corps has decided to convert some Lockheed Martin KC-130J tankers into combination surveillance platforms and gunships. The renamed KC-130J "Harvest Hawk" would retain the wing-mounted refuelling pods and tanker mission, but add a new targeting sensor and a 30mm cannon, the USMC says. Marine commanders have issued an urgent request for the Harvest Hawk capability, believing that the KC-130J could be used as more than simply a refuelling system for helicopters and tiltrotors. "If we can get more utility out of the tanker platform –– then why not," the service says. U.S. Naval Air Systems Command is working with several suppliers to implement the Harvest Hawk platform. The electro-optical targeting sensor is a pending choice between Lockheed's Target Sight System (TSS) already installed on the Bell Helicopter AH-1Z attack helicopter or the L-3 Wescam MX-15. The TSS has already been selected for installation on some Lockheed AC-130 gunships operated by U.S. Special Operations Command. The precise number of Harvest Hawk platforms to be prepared and the timeline for deliveries was not immediately available. When it is deployed, the Harvest Hawk will join a growing mix of manned aircraft being converted into multi-role surveillance and strike platforms. The Defense Intelligence Agency, for example, now operates C-130s called Shadow Harvest, which are equipped with a BAE Systems hyperspectral imaging sensor. The U.S. Air Force is converting more than 30 Beechcraft C-12 Hurons into a new manned surveillance fleet called MC-12 Libertys. The U.S. Army started the trend in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006 by converting some Shorts C-23B Sherpas into surveillance platforms called Constant Hawks. http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/04/02/324708/us-marine-corps-plans-to-convert-kc-130j-tankers-into.html

Bob Daley has a great listing of all the Hercs made, look in the header for C-130 Production List and click on it. That will open a XL file. Then you can take the serial and go to Joe Baughers website and cross it with his serial number/BUNO list and find the Lockheed numbers. Lars Olausson has a great book, http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/book/lars.htm, don't know hoe current it is. None of them are going to give you any actual details about the differences between the models though. Enjoy.

Get yourself an advocate, the DAV, AMVETS and let those guys do the hard work for you when dealing the initial VA stuff. Make sure you have everything documented from your medical record to your initial .mil screening and don't worry too much about the disability rating from the .mil, the VA rates higher. Have you done your pre-separation screening yet? TAP class (or whatever they are calling it these days)? Get it all done while on active duty.

[ATTACH]142[/ATTACH] An A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft with an assortment of weapons stores is secured atop a 30-foot pedestal at the Rome Air Development Center's Newport Test Site. A new configuration of weapons will alter the effectiveness of the aircraft's antennas. The tests being conducted will assess antenna effectiveness. Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE Date Shot: 12/28/1977 [ATTACH]143[/ATTACH] A technician explains to an airman how avionics packages and radars are placed aboard a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft at the Rome Air Development Center. Photographer's Name: TSGT John L. Marine Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE, ROME Date Shot: 8/1/1982 [ATTACH]144[/ATTACH] A C-130 Hercules aircraft is inverted on a pedestal at the Rome Air Development Center's Irish Hill test site. Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE, STOCKBRIDGE Date Shot: 7/17/1986 You can find these and plenty more at http://dodimagery.afis.osd.mil/index.html You can't hotlink pictures from there.

Amazing that you AF guys don't know where and what that is. And it takes a Navy guy to tell you that. The C-130 is mounted on a pedestal at the USAF's Stockbridge Antenna Measurement and Research Facility. The smaller planes are mounted on pedestals at the USAF's Newport Antenna Research and Measurement Facility. They are part of the Rome Air Development Center which was at one time part of Griffiss AFB but is now under the direction of Wright-Patterson AFB. WP's website on the Newport site - http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/ri/ - Look under facilities. [ATTACH]145[/ATTACH] A view of an F-4E Phantom II aircraft mounted upside-down on a test tower at the Rome Air Development Center Newport site. Attached to the undercarriage of the F-4E is a special electronics pod holding a Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS). Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE Date Shot: 9/17/1979 [ATTACH]146[/ATTACH] A view of an F-4 Phantom II aircraft mounted upside-down on a test tower at the Rome Air Development Center Antenna Patterns Test Facility at the Newport site. The effectiveness of an AN/ALQ-119 electronic countermeasure pod, attached to the undercarriage of the F-4, is being determined without having to fly the aircraft. Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE Date Shot: 12/17/1979 [ATTACH]147[/ATTACH] An F-4 Phantom II aircraft is removed from a 30-foot-high test pedestal prior to being turned over and remounted. From this test pedestal, at the Rome Air Development Center, aircraft antennas can be tested and evaluated in various flight positions. Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE Date Shot: 3/11/1980 [ATTACH]148[/ATTACH] An F-15C Eagle aircraft is mounted on a pedestal at the Newport Test Site of the Rome Air Development Center. Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE Date Shot: 8/14/1986

You'll get an "interesting" voice recording if you call that number.

Combined Border Patrol (Homeland Security) operates one P-3B AEW (rotodome) bird. http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/border_security/air_marine/air/aviation_asset/orion_p3b.xml

Actually 321 (and the other two LC-130F's and the LC-130R) that are at DM have been operated to the point that they need to go through a complete rework (SDLM or Depot level maintenance) before they could be used again. VX-30 pulled XD-06 (320) out of the boneyard is it had the most hours avalible before an overhaul was required. They operated it for about 5 years. Then there's that one little sticking point - those planes actually belong to the National Science Foundation and not the Navy. Finally, there are not too many C-130B's or C-130F's out there in the .us.mil fleet these days. The NYANG has enough planes to accomplish their tasking, I seriously doubt that they would want three used LC-130F's in their fleet. There's a reason why the NYANG and the NSG did not take XD-04 (LC-130R) and convert it to LC-130H specs.

That's what remains of the Navy LC-130R 155917 that crashed at the South Pole while landing. Lockheed LC-130R Lockheed production number: 4305 Lockheed series number: 382C-9D Type/Model/Series LC-130R US Navy Buno: 155917 Build date: 1968 VX-6 side number: JD-17 History: Operated with VX-6 / VXE-6 from 1968 to 1973. This was a "one only" Navy LC-130R buy from Lockheed. Disposition: Crashed on landing at the South Pole Station 28 Jan 73. It is located about a quarter mile off of the the approach end of the South Pole runway, used as a guidence marker. It crashed on the old runway in 1973. In 1975 when the new South Pole station was finished the hulk of 917 was moved from where it had crashed to its new location as a radar marker about a mile upwind of the McMurdo end of the South Pole skiway. In 2007 they moved the South Pole runway again, by now 917 was buried under 30 feet of snow and ice, so the removed the tail and re-buried it. [ATTACH]503[/ATTACH] You can go to my VXE-6 web page and read about it: http://www.vaq34.com/vxe6/155917.htm Bill Spindler's webpage has more info: http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy2/917bw1.html There are other links on that web page that have more information.

All of the LC-130F's still had the forward cargo door and the forward cargo door hyd system and locks/actuators installed and were still connected to the forward hand pump. At some point in time they had all been re-skinned (even 321) and the forward cargo door was no more (from the outside).

Hey Skier130, you guys still cussing out the Navy over your three \'new\' C-130R\'s....errrrr H\'s? :lol:

You\'re a day late and a dollar short.

We (Navy) used a forklift with tine extentions, 4X4\'s and aircraft chocks to remove/move the ramp.

Mugu, not Magu. I thought that the Channel Island ANG still had a couple of E\'s or H\'s. I was also thinking that someone somewhere could have asked the ANG or the Navy Reserves to pick up an AF T56 instead of waiting a week. So do you know if the USAF/ANG is going to put the NP2000 props on all of the LC-130\'s or only the military owned ones?