DC-130A VC-3 taking off from Point Mugu 1983.JPEG
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| Description | A U.S. Navy Lockheed DC-130A Hercules (BuNo 570497) assigned to Composite Squadron VC-3 Bloodhounds at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California (USA), on 27 January 1983, carrying BQM-34S Firebee drones. This aircraft had been delieverd to the U.S. Air Force as an C-130A-45-LM in 1957 and was retired on 8 January 1979. It was transferred to the U.S. Navy on 13 March 1979 and converted to a DC-130A drone control aircraft. Curiously it kept its USAF serial number and was not assigned a regular USN BuNo. It became the oldest C-130 in US military service and was even deployed to Iraq in 2003. It was finally retired to the AMARC as 2G0055 on 27 June 2007. |
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| Source | U.S. DefenseImagery photo VIRIN: DN-SC-84-04495 |
| Author | PHAN Sherry DeLong, USN |
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