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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130H Hercules
    Last Military Serial:FAB 2479 FABr
    Construction Number:4449
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130H sn FAB 2479 FABr cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Forca Aerea Brasileira

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130H.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Aeronautica Militare Italiana with s/n MM61992.

    By June 1981

    Transferred to 50 Gruppo, 46 BA, Grazzanise.
    Operated with markings: 46-06
    Medium grey overall.

    26 June 1981


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common, still in bare aluminium.

    29 June 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: departing RAF Greenham Common IAT

    May 1983


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: AMI - C-130H - MM61992, Code 46-06 in May 1983

    Circa 1999


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Fairford.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forca Aerea Brasileira with s/n FAB 2479.
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     Robert Nichols
    Ken Videan
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