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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:KC-130F Hercules
    Last Military Serial:149791 USMC
    Construction Number:3657
    Compressed ID:Lockheed KC-130F sn 149791 USMC cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:MCAS Miramar (South Side), San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a GV-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 149791.

    1962

    Redesignated as KC-130F.

    From 1988 to 1990

    Transferred to Blue Angels, NAS Pensacola, FL.

    From 1988 to 1990

    Markings Applied: Christine

    6 October 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX as Blue Angels support aircraft Christine

    6 October 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX as Blue Angels support aircraft Christine

    6 October 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX as Blue Angels support aircraft Christine

    2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March AFB, CA on transient ramp

    By 15 October 2004

    Transferred to VMGR-352, MCAS Miramar, CA.

    By 15 October 2004

    Markings Applied: 791, QB

    15 October 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at MCAS Miramar Airshow

    20 April 2005

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    To MCAS Miramar (South Side), San Diego, CA.
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    Robert Nichols
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