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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:EC-130Q Hercules
    Last Military Serial:156173 USN
    Construction Number:4277
    Last Civil Registration:N34277
    Compressed ID:Lockheed EC-130Q sn 156173 USN cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an EC-130Q.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 156173.

    28 June 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: EC-130Q Hercules of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron VQ-4 on display at the 1978 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    21 May 1990

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2G009.

    By 1994

    Stored stripped at Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.

    5 June 1996

    To Airplane Sales International Corporation, Santa Monica, CA with new c/r N34277.

    By November 2002

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Only the fuselage survives here.
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    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    23 May 2017

    Civil registration, N34277, cancelled.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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