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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?

AMPTestFE wrote: After reading your inputs I gotta say that it sounds like it was a goat rope. What\'s wrong with using Snow Aviations stats and data? Sounds like they didn\'t look at the data from the Hawkeyes either. Gotta tell ya, there\'s a little bit of difference between the LC-130\'s and the \"slicks\". So does that mean that the USAF/ANG is going to have to do tests all over again with the LC-130\'s \"just to make sure\"? It took you guys a week to get an engine? WTF, Channel Islands/NAS Point Mugu is about 40 minutes away as the crow flys. You mean the CA ANG didn\'t have an engine? Those NP2000 props will be just the ticket for Antarctic ops, now they\'ll really be able to over-torque engines down there.

When you go to the auction web site it shows a few C-130\'s. \'Boneyard\' scrap to be auctioned Metals, rubber will be sold online from D-M facility By Aaron Mackey Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.02.2008 An online auction site plans to sell 27 million pounds of scrap from surplus military aircraft that have been stored at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Government Liquidation, a Scottsdale-based private firm that contracts with the Department of Defense, plans to sell the materials during an auction at the end of the month. The auction, billed as one of the largest of its kind, will feature scrap aluminum, steel, magnesium, titanium and rubber that came from aircraft stored at D-M\'s Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, commonly called the \"boneyard,\" according to a company news release. The aircraft - including Navy A-4 Skyhawk attack jets and Air Force C-141 Starlifter cargo planes - already have been stripped down and handed over to Government Liquidation, said Terry Vanden-Heuvel, a spokesman for D-M\'s storage yard. D-M crews strip the aircraft of all their military components and drain any fluids or other hazardous materials, Vanden-Heuvel said. The scrap metal is then sold by Government Liquidation, which gives most of the proceeds back to the government. The company, which holds the exclusive contract with the Defense Department to sell military surplus and scrap metal, returns 77 percent of the net sales from the auctions, the news release said. This type of scrap sale is common, though the company said the April sale involves the most metal it has ever auctioned for the government. While the press release said the latest sale of scrap metal will be held to make room in the boneyard, Vanden-Heuvel said the unit, which has thousands of mothballed aircraft, isn\'t running out of real estate. Besides the Skyhawk, a Vietnam-era attack jet, and the Starlifter, a jet cargo aircraft developed in the \'60s, the auction also includes scrap from Navy S-3 Viking multirole attack jets, T-34 trainer planes and HH-3 Jolly Green Giant transport helicopters. Auction info . The online auction for scrap metal from old military aircraft stored at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is scheduled to run April 21-25. . For more info, visit: cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?auctionId=1650637 This scrap metal has a history. Government Liquidation LLC of Scottsdale is helping to clear space in the \"boneyard\" on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, creating the company\'s largest auction to date. Aircraft such as C-141 Starlifters, A-4 Skyhawks, S-3 Vikings, T-34 trainers and \"Jolly Green Giant\" helicopters will be sold for their base materials in the form of 27 million pounds of scrap metal beginning April 21. This scrap includes aircraft parts such as wings, wheels and hulls and materials such as aluminum, steel, magnesium, titanium and rubber. Government Liquidation will return 77 percent of the net sales proceeds to the Department of Defense. More than 4,200 decommissioned military aircraft rest in the Davis-Montham boneyard, where the military can withdraw functional aircraft, parts or equipment. Government Liquidation is an online marketplace for the sale of surplus and scrap items on behalf of the U.S. government. For more: www.govliquidation.com. End-of-Life Military Planes to Be Sold as Shredded Scrap on www.Govliquidation.com 27 Million Pounds of Ferrous and Nonferrous Metals Marks Largest Online Scrap Auction By Government Liquidation, LLC SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 26 --In its largest auction to date, Government Liquidation is helping to clear some space in the \"boneyard\" on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ, the final resting spot for over 4,200 decommissioned military aircraft. After serving their time with the United States Department of Defense (DOD), aircrafts such as C-141 Starlifters, A-4 Skyhawks, S-3 Vikings, T-34 trainers and \"Jolly Green Giant\" helicopters are being sold for their base materials in the form of 27 million pounds of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal. Beginning on April 21, 2008, Government Liquidation will be accepting bids on these end-of-life aircraft through its online auction marketplace, http://www.govliquidation.com. The boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base provides a unique savings account from which U.S. military units throughout the world may withdraw functional aircraft, parts or equipment. After non-functional, end-of-life aircraft have been stripped of all components, they turn into revenue generators for the DOD as they are sold for their scrap metal content. This 27 million pound scrap sale consists of aircraft parts such as wings, wheels and hulls and includes scrap materials such as aluminum, steel, magnesium, titanium and rubber. Through its profit sharing arrangement with the DOD, Government Liquidation will return 77% of the net sales proceeds to the government. Government Liquidation is the innovative online marketplace for the sale of surplus and scrap on behalf of the U.S. government. This unique site enables buyers to purchase government assets ranging from outdoor gear, genuine Hummer vehicle parts, office equipment, and medical and dental equipment to musical instruments, rare items and the occasional retired ceremonial mount, from more than 206 locations across the country. Government Liquidation earned the exclusive contract with Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for the sale of surplus and scrap assets of the DOD in 2001 and continues to move thousands of surplus items and scrap materials daily through its convenient and accessible Internet auction site. \"In addition to scrap term contracts, Government Liquidation offers a host of other items. All other bids, no matter the item, begin at $50.00,\" explains Tom Burton, President of Government Liquidation. \"The market demand determines the final selling price.\" For more information about the terms and conditions for term contracts and this single lot sale of 27 million pounds of scrap metal, visit http://www.govliquidation.com. -- Auction begins April 21, 2008 12 a.m. ET and closes April 25, 2008 8 p.m. ET. Buyers may view detailed information and photos as well as place bids at http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?auctionId=1650637.

I can\'t figure out why the USAF/ANG is going to test the NP2000 propeller system on a non-ski equipped C-130 when the article states that the NP2000 is supposed to be for the LC-130\'s. Typical Air Force double speak.... I wonder if the non-USAF/ANG LC-130\'s (73-3300, 76-3301, 76-3302 and 93-1096) are going to get the NP2000 props.