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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:CC-130E (SAR) Hercules
    Last Military Serial:130306 CAF
    Construction Number:4026
    Compressed ID:Lockheed CC-130E (SAR) sn 130306 CA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Abbotsford International Airport (West Side), Abbotsford, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130E.
    WFU at Abbotsford Airport BC

    Circa 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 64-17625.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 10306.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 130306.

    Transferred to No. 436 Squadron, CFB Uplands, ON.

    December 1971

    Made three unsuccessful attempts to extricate Westerners from Dacca, East Pakistan during the India and Pakistan War.

    1974


    Photographer: SMSGT. Dana Nichols (USAF Retire
    Notes: Photo taken at Elmendorf AFB, AK

    Converted to a CC-130NT.

    Transferred to Navigation School, CFB Winnipeg, MB.

    By 1991

    Transferred to No. 429 Squadron, CFB Winnipeg, MB.

    Transferred to NAVAIR, Toronto.

    1993

    Converted from navigation trainer to SAR role with special avionics at NAVAIR.

    Redesignated as CC-130E (SAR).

    1995

    Transferred to No. 413 (T and R) Squadron, CFB Greenwood, NS.

    Assigned to CFB Winnipeg, MB for storage.
    Held in flyable reserve.

    By July 2012

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Abbotsford International Airport (West Side), Abbotsford, BC.
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    3 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: WFU at Abbotsford BC
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