The Arkansas Air National Guard is close to completely taking over a new mission that has prompted growth in its number of personnel and aircraft over the past two years. The National Guard's 189th ...
Flying into Camp Duck was a death-defying mission, but Lieutenant Colonel John Delmer made the attempt in his C-130. On ...
A humanitarian rescue plane was fired upon in Sudan’s war-torn capital on Friday. The Turkish C-130 was able to land at Wadi Seidna airfield, near Khartoum despite what appeared to be fuel system ...
California's latest weapon in the never-ending war against wildfires, a former military plane repurposed to drop fire retardant, has deployed on its first mission in Riverside County. CAL FIRE's first ...
In 1963, a U.S. Navy KC-130F Hercules turned “impossible” into routine by operating from the deck of the supercarrier USS ...
A captive orca may soon be going home thanks to a complex rescue mission involving a billionaire, a cargo plane, and a watery life support system. Activists have led the charge to send Tokitae back to ...
A military airlift unit in Alabama is taking on one of the biggest challenges in its nearly 60-year history: ditching its beloved cargo planes for helicopters. After 40 years of taking the C-130 ...
10,000 flight hours in the C-130: the most hours ever recorded by a pilot in the Hercules. On Sept. 24, 2024, Gary Hogg, a seasoned test pilot logged his 10,000th flight hours in the C-130 Hercules ...
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been in production for 60 years, longer than any other military aircraft. As it prepares to enter its eighth decade of service, the C-130 has no retirement plans, so ...
Military airframer Lockheed Martin has delivered the 2,700th example of the company’s venerable C-130 Hercules tactical transport. The milestone aircraft, a KC-130J refueller variant, will be operated ...
A NASA C-130 Hercules successfully delivered the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. GUSTO is scheduled to launch via a ...