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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130A-8-LM Hercules
    Last Military Serial:56-0518 USAF
    Construction Number:3126
    Latest Owner or Location:Little Rock AFB, Little Rock, Arkansas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A-8-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.

    1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0518.

    November 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South Vietnam Air Force with s/n 56-0518.

    1975

    Was the last C-130 out of Vietnam during the fall of Saigon, lifting off with 452 people on board headed for Thailand.

    1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0518.
    Reclaimed by the USAF in Thailand.

    Served with two different National Guard units.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 19 EMS/MXMFS, Little Rock AFB, AR.

    28 June 1989

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Little Rock AFB, Little Rock, AR.
    Arrived at Little Rock on this date.
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    25 April 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Little Rock, AR, USA


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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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