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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:EC-130E Command Solo
    Last Military Serial:62-1857 USAF
    Construction Number:3821
    Compressed ID:Lockheed EC-130E sn 62-1857 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Sullenberge Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an EC-130E.

    Circa 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 62-1857.

    1980

    Participated in Operation Eagle Claw, the 1980 mission that attempted to rescue Americans held hostage at the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran.

    16 September 1987


    Photographer: Friedrich Becker
    Notes: At Goose Bay

    To Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC.
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    7 June 2015


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At Charlotte Douglas Airport (KCLT)

    16 July 2016


    Photographer: VIN (V77RFC)
    Notes: At the Carolinas Aviation Museum

    To Sullenberge Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC.
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