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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130A Hercules
    Last Military Serial:55-0018 USAF
    Construction Number:3045
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130A sn 55-0018 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Centre de Essais Aeronautique de Toulouse (CEAT), Balma, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A.

    November 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-0018.

    From 7 March 1990 to 24 October 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 55-0018 and stored with the markings: CF081.

    June 2012

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Centre de Essais Aeronautique de Toulouse (CEAT), Balma, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees.
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    18 June 2015


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Toulouse-Balma, France
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
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     John Bennett
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