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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:HC-130P Hercules
    Last Military Serial:64-14855 USAF
    Construction Number:4055
    Compressed ID:Lockheed HC-130P sn 64-14855 USAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HC-130H-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.

    Circa 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 64-14855.

    Transferred to 57th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal.

    By May 1967

    Transferred to 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, RAF Mildenhal, Suffolk.

    To 48th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Eglin AFB, FL.

    Transferred to 303rd Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, March AFB, CA.

    11 September 1976


    Photographer: Vernon Gerdes
    Notes: At Norton AFB, CA

    By February 1988

    Transferred to 304th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, 939th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group, Portland International Airport, OR.
    Operated with markings: PD

    1 April 1990

    Transferred to 304th Air Rescue Squadron, 939th Air Rescue Wing, Portland International Airport, OR.
    Operated with markings: PD
    Unit redesignation.

    1 February 1992

    Transferred to 304th Rescue Squadron, 939th Rescue Wing, Portland International Airport, OR.
    Operated with markings: PD
    Unit redesignation.

    Markings Applied: PD 304th RQS, AFRes

    By 1994

    Converted to a HC-130P.

    28 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: On finals to Fairford.

    8 November 2003


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Daytona Beach Airshow, Daytona Beach FL

    By 2010

    Transferred to 39th Rescue Squadron, 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick AFB, FL.
    Operated with markings: AFRC, RESCUE, FL, 64-4855

    30 October 2015

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).


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     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
    Ken Videan
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