Dates

Event

Constructed as a KC-130T-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 162313.

Converted to an EC-130Q.
Christened Willem den Toom, after the Air Force three star general who became Minister for Defense.

By August 1986

Transferred to VQ-4, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

23 September 1991

Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2G0016.

30 May 1996

To Airplane Sales International Corporation, Santa Monica, CA with new c/r N9239G.
Although registered in Santa Monica, it may not have left Tucson before going to the Netherlands.

To DMI, Tucson, AZ keeping c/r N9239G.

2004

Sold to Netherlands for conversion to C-130H spec.

2 April 2006

Contracted to Marshall Aerospace, Cambridge, UK for work on the airframe.
To Marshall for conversion to the C-130 spec.

25 May 2006

Civil registration, N9239G, cancelled.
Registration pending to a new owner in Milwaukee, WI.

2009

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht / Royal Netherlands Air Force with s/n G-988.

18 February 2009

Seen undergoing engine runs at Marshall Aerospace prior to first flight after rebuild.

2 July 2009

First flight.
Flown at Cambridge.

15 July 2009

Photographer: Lewis Grant
Notes: G-988 C-130H Hercules Royal Netherlands Air Force - On approach to Fairford, runway 27

19 June 2010

Photographer: Ronald van der Valk
Notes: G-988 at the RNLAF Open Days in 2010 - a few months after its delivery

21 September 2013

Photographer: robert roggeman
Notes: OPEN DAY 15 WING.EBMB.

11 June 2016

Photographer: Ronald van der Valk
Notes: Overflight during the RNLAF Open Days at Leeuwarden AB