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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:KC-130T Hercules
    Last Military Serial:163310 USN
    Construction Number:5085
    Compressed ID:Lockheed KC-130T sn 163310 USN cn 5...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 20 (VX-20), NAS Patuxent River, MD

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-130T.

    1986

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-0045.
    Apparently not TOS by USAF, rather it was acquired for the USMC.

    1986

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 163310.

    1986

    Transferred to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234 (VMGR-234), NAS Glenview, IL.
    Operated with markings: QH-3310

    29 August 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At NAS Glenview, IL

    By March 1990

    Transferred to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452 (VMGR-452), Stewart ANG Base, NY.
    Operated with markings: NY-3310

    Circa 1995

    Transferred to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234 (VMGR-234), NAS Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, TX.
    Operated with markings: QH

    From 1996 to 1997

    Loaned to U. S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Markings changed to: QH-3310, Blue Angels crest by cockpit
    Operated as Blue Angels Support Aircraft.

    By April 1997

    Transferred to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 (VMGR-352), MCAS Miramar, CA.
    Operated with markings: QB-3310

    By May 2011

    Transferred to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234 (VMGR-234), NAS Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, TX.
    Operated with markings: QH-3310

    May 2016

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163310.

    From May 2016 to After August 2023

    Transferred to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 20 (VX-20), NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: 3310

    19 August 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Meacham International Airport, Fort Worth, TX.

    19 August 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Meacham International Airport, Fort Worth, TX.

    By August 2023

    Markings Applied: WB, 3310
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    C-130.Net
    Flicker
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    RZJets
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Tom Tessier
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