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The Lockheed L-100 Hercules is the civilian variant of the prolific C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft made by the Lockheed Corporation. Its first flight occurred in 1964. Longer L-100-20 and L-100-30 versions were developed. L-100 production ended in 1992 with 114 aircraft delivered.
The two prototype YC-130s, AF Serial Numbers 53-3396 and 53-3397, were built at the Burbank, California plant, and were given c/ns 1001 and 1002.Production Hercules have all been built at the Lockheed-Marietta, Georgia plant, and began their c/ns at 3001 (USAF 53-3129, still extant at the Air Force Armament Museum).
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac , and cargo transport aircraft .
The airplane, a civilian Lockheed L-100-30(P) version of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, registration A-1325 [7] had been on a normal flight transporting military personnel and their families to Iswahyudi Air Force Base. [8]
Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules: 2 5 7 † 5 Merion mid-air collision [174] 4 April 1991 Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania: Bell 412SP and Piper PA-60-601 Aerostar: 2 13 15: N/A Saint Petersburg Tupolev Tu-154 crash [175] 23 May 1991 Saint Petersburg, Russia Tupolev Tu-154B-1: 2 133 135: 1 (on aircraft) Indonesian Air Force A-1324 crash [176] 5 ...
Safair Boeing 737-300 at Sharjah International Airport Safair Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules Safair L100-30 ZS-RSC sitting on the Deep Freeze ramp at Christchurch International Airport in between missions to Zucchelli Station in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. As of July 2019 the Safair fleet consists of the following aircraft: [7] [8]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
The 25-year-old aircraft, [4] a Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules, registration 7T-VHG, was operating a cargo service between Algiers-Houari Boumediene Airport and Frankfurt Airport as Flight 2208; [2] it was flying over Italian soil at 24,000 feet (7,300 m) when it began descending for unknown reasons. [5]