Turkey became a Hercules operator in 1964, receiving five new C-130E's which were later supplemented by three more of the same version. Then in 1991/92, Turkey received six 2nd hand surplus C-130B from the USAF, among them 57-0527 pictured here during exercise Anatolian Eagle 2016. Having been manufactured in 1958, 57-0527 is the oldest C-130 the TuAF ever operated. As from 2010, the TuAF also received six C-130E's from the Royal Saudi AF, bringing the total number of C-130 operated by Turkey to 20. The 19 remaining airframes have recently undergone a life extension program known as ERCIYES.

The Pakistan AF became a Hercules operator in 1962 and since then has operated no less than 34 Herks of different variants, most of them sourced 2nd hand from the Air Forces of Iran, the US, Australia and lately Belgium. 4159 pictured here is a 1966 built airframe which served with the RAAF as A97-159 before being transferred to Pakistan in December of 2005. Five more ex RAAF followed (4171, 4171, 4178, 4180 and 4189). In Pakistan, the C-130 construction numbers are equal to the serial worn on the vertical fin.

Mar '57: TOS USAF and assigned to 774th Troop Carrier Squadron/463rd Troop Carrier Wing, Ardmore AFB, OK. Was one of the Four Horsemen Demonstration Team. Ca.1967: 35th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Naha Air Base, Okinawa. Later to 303rd TAS, Richards-Gebaur AFB, MO.; 95th TAS/440th Tactical Airlift Wing, Milwaukee, WI ; 64th TAS/928th Airlift Wing (AFRES), O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL. Aug '89: TBM Inc, Redmond, OR with c/r N473TM. Operated as Fire Service #63. 13 Mar 15: Castle Air Museum Foundation Inc, Atwater, CA. 23 Nov 15; Ferried to Castle Air Museum Foundation Inc.

Photo by Klaus Mohr.

Arriving as "SUMMIT 94" this would be assigned to the 731AS/302AW/AFRES in Colorado

A-1318 lining up on Runway 15 in Wamena was the 2nd of five stretched new built C-130H-30's delivered to the TNI-AU in late 1980. The serials of that batch are A-1317 through A-1321 (became A-1341 in 1982). All five remain in service at the time of upload, with A-1318 being the only one of that batch keeping the original white/grey/yellow paint scheme. While other Indonesian AF Hercules have been rotated between SkU 31, 32 and 33, A-1318 has always been with Skadron Udara 31 based at Jakarta-Halim.

This aircraft was manufactured in 1970 and acquired by the Polish Armed Forces on November 16, 2010, under the Foreign Military Financing program from U.S. Air Force stocks. Decommissioned on 30 July 2024 and donated to the Museum on 12 August 2024.

Ostensibly in long-term storage at ENAER facilities (Carlos Ay photo).

Ex 89-1182 USAF

This Herc was built as a L100-20, received Lockheed test registration N9751S in Oct'68. A month later, Air America accepted the aircraft as N923SJ. In Jul'70, Southern Air Transport took over the aircraft. In Jan'74, it was registered with Saturn Air as N23ST and moved two years later to Trans-International Airlines Inc keeping its registration N23ST. In Oct'87, the Herc was moved to Southern Air Transport as again N923SJ. That registration was cancelled in Jul'98 when it was sold to Transafrik International as S9-CAV. Leased to the United Nations. In May'90 it became 5X-TUA with Transafrik.

1957: TOS USAF. By August '58 through 1970: Based in Japan and Okinawa. 1971: 109th Tactical Airlift Squadron (ANG), Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport. Ca.1974: 167th TAS (ANG), Shepherd Field, Martinsburg, WV. 1976: 180th TAS/139th Tactical Airlift Group (ANG), Rosecrans Memorial Airport, St Joseph, MO. May '84: Chanute Technical Training Center, Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL. Jun '90: Placed on display in Thunderbird Air Park, Chanute AFB. By Jun '93: Chanute Air Museum, Rantoul, IL. 31 Oct '15: Chanute Museum closed. 20 May '16: Museum of Missouri Military History, Jefferson City, MO.

Photographer Roberto Farina - In March 1980 she was in Thailand for a humanitarian mission lasting about 3 weeks explaining red cross on tail and logo Caltex on landing gear bay: info welcome - To Colombia as FAC1015

Photographer Roberto Farina