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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:AC-130H Spectre
    Last Military Serial:69-6572 USAF
    Construction Number:4346
    Latest Owner or Location:Cannon Air Force Base Air Park, Cannon AFB (north side), Clovis, New Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 69-6572.

    Transferred to 64th Tactical Airlift Wing, Sewart AFB, TN.
    Operated with markings: ST

    Transferred to 64th Tactical Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, AR.

    By January 1972

    Converted to an AC-130E.
    Converted to AC-130E under Project Pave Spectre and fitted with low light level television and forward-looking infrared.

    Transferred to 16th SOS, 8th TFW, Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand.

    1973

    Converted to an AC-130H.
    Converted to AC-130H under Project Pave Spectre II.

    Transferred to 415th SOTS, 1st SOW, Hurlburt Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: Gravedigger

    By September 1998

    Transferred to 16th SOS, 1st SOG, Hurlburt Field, FL.

    By August 2012

    Transferred to 16th SOS, 27th Special Operations Group, Cannon AFB, NM.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    To CANNON AFB (NM), 27 SOMSG/CD.

    6 May 2014

    Placed on display with Cannon Air Force Base Air Park, Cannon AFB (north side), Clovis, NM.
    Dedicated on this date.
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