The 415th Special Operations Squadron, the receiving unit, now operates eight ... Situated on the grounds of Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, is Air Force Plant 6, where aerospace giant Lockheed ...

In the past two weeks, the Coast Guard has conducted at least seven C-130 Hercules flights that spanned California, Texas and ...

A total of four C-17 and C-130 aircraft will be involved ... No information was immediately available about what units they will come from. Beyond the Air Force flyers, the Pentagon is sending ...

MAFFS, or Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems, transforms a military transport into an aerial firefighter. In an interview with Simple Flying, David Sarnoff, the Executive Director for the MAFFS ...

Col. Matt Schwegel, a C-130 pilot with the 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard. Four units — three Air Guard and one Air Force Reserve — fly the MAFFS mission with eight aircraft.

In December of 2022, YARS was selected as the preferred location to replace the Air ... its first C-130 aircraft in 1981 and operated multiple variants for over 40 years. The unit's current ...

Until the end of its production, these aircraft were manufactured and assembled by Lockheed Martin at the so-called Air Force Plant 6, located at Dobbins Air Reserve ... the C-130J platform (MC-130J, ...

IDF strikes Wael Makin Abdallah Abu-Fanounah on January 19, 2024 (IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) Deputy Head of Information ... coordinating with the Israeli Air Force to conduct precise strikes based ...

The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has announced that it has successfully restored to full operational status a Lockheed C-130 "Hercules" transport aircraft following "critical structure maintenance ...

The FAU aircraft dropped US-developed “Guardian” boxed with 1,000 liters of water each A Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) Hercules C-130 four-engined turboprop aircraft landed back in Montevideo ...

Read about the Air Force's plan to raise the C-130J Combined Aircraft Delivery, Development, Integration and Engineering contract's ceiling to $25 billion.