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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:LC-130F Hercules
    Last Military Serial:148320 USN
    Construction Number:3565
    Compressed ID:Lockheed LC-130F sn 148320 USN cn 3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a LC-130F.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-5924.
    Originally ordered for USAF as C-130B, to USN before entering service with USAF.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148320.

    From 1961 to 31 December 1968

    Transferred to VX-6.

    From 1961 to 31 December 1968

    Markings Applied: 20, JD

    1962

    Redesignated as C-130BL.

    Redesignated as LC-130F.

    From 1 January 1969 to 31 March 1999

    Transferred to VXE-6, NAS Point Mugu, CA.
    Operational control transferred to National Science Foundation in October 1979.

    From 1 January 1969 to 31 March 1999

    Markings Applied: Pete, 06, VXE-6, XD

    September 1995


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: Taken at 1995 airshow at Point Mugu

    6 March 1999

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CF0191.

    20 January 2005

    New serial number assigned: 2G0039 AMARC

    27 July 2005

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Circa 2005

    Placed on display with Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    20 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Davis Monthan, AZ, USA

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     MASDC III, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona by Bonny, Swann and Fryer
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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