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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:WC-130E Hercules
    Last Military Serial:64-0553 USAF
    Compressed ID:Lockheed WC-130E sn 64-0553 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:United Aeronautical Corporation, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a WC-130E.

    Circa 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 64-0553.

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CF145.

    To Southern Utah Air Museum, Washington, UT.
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    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    To United Aeronautical Corporation, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    26 July 2010


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Plenty of clues on this C-130E nose to identify it, seen here in ARM/ DMI in Tucson, AZ. CF145 is 64-0553 a WC-130E. It moved from here to Utah, but is now on display at the RAF Museum, Hendon

    8 March 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Nose on display at the RAF Museum, Hendon, UK
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