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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:AC-130A Spectre
    Last Military Serial:54-1628 USAF
    Construction Number:3015
    Compressed ID:Lockheed AC-130A sn 54-1628 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a C-130A.

    Circa July 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 54-1628.

    Converted to a JC-130A.


    Photographer: San Diego Air and Space Museum Collection

    Converted to an AC-130A.

    By October 1987

    Transferred to 711th Special Operations Squadron, Duke Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: The Exterminator

    20 April 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX.

    Circa 1995

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CF178.

    To Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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     MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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