Ex NASA Hercules parked at Kenosha Airport, as part of the Russell Military Museum, located off-airport in Russell. IL. Note the "Kenosha Militairy Museum" titles on the underwing tank, which is the former name of the museum (name changed to Russell Military Museum in Oct 2007). In late 2011 the museum sold the Hercules to Coulson Flying Tankers, who converted it to an airtanker as N130FF. They still operated it by 2018.

Registered N54281 in 1990 apparently in preparation for a ferry flight to a museum but reported to have been scrapped instead.

Photographer: Steven Zink. Operating for VQ-4.

The NSF Herc is pictured parked up in front of the small PAE terminal.

Rental car headlights on full beam are occasionally a very useful aid for aviation photography! Stored in the Western scrapyard bordering DM for spares on behalf of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Stored in this scrapyard bordering DM on behalf of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The ex-US-Navy serial is still visible in tiny numbers just fore of the horizontal stabs.

Newly built EC-130Q for the US Navy at Addison for pre-delivery fitting out prior to service with VQ-4 Squadron. Later modified to TC-130Q with wing tip pods.