Let’s take a closer look at an aircraft that has performed myriad roles for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard since first flying more than 70 years ago. The C-130 is the longest ...

A Royal Australian Air Force ... 64-years-plus stretch of flying the aircraft. Potential future customers in the region for the C-130J include Singapore and Thailand, who are both operating legacy ...

Still, it shows the Air Force has a basic idea of what it wants the Herk-replacement to do. According to the CRFI, the next C-130 may have to carry up to 190% more payload and assume a new mission ...

The Air Force C-130 has done just about everything a transport plane can do over the course of its 67-year career. It has served as a troop transport, gunship, search and rescue plane, aerial gas ...

The C-130 was also honored at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, where the 36th Airlift Squadron and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force 401st Tactical Airlift Squadron took to the skies to commemorate ...

The US Air Force has decided to pull 123 C-130 transport aircraft out of service after "atypical cracks" were discovered on the wings, Air Mobility Command announced. The C-130, a type of plane of ...

The An HC-130P Combat King, tail number 62-1863 and nicknamed "Iron Horse," made its final flight March 3 to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, on March 3. The aircraft entered ...

[Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] Can a Lockheed ... operations in the Air Force’s venerable cargo workhorse. Under the collaboration, Merlin Labs will retrofit a C-130 with software and technology ...

Air Force C-130 cargo planes specially equipped to drop thousands of gallons of wildfire retardant took part in training this week at the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in Port Hueneme ...