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Aircraft:
Lockheed C-130E Hercules
- Reg: 63-7865 photos
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Serial #:
382-3935
- Airline: United States - US Air Force (USAF)
- Photo Date: Mar 24, 2016
- Uploaded: Jul 09, 2016
- Tucson Davis-Monthan Air Force Base - KDMA, USA - Arizona
Notes:
A rather special Hercules, the Purple Heart recipient. On 1st June 1972 she took a mortar round through the No. 3 engine while parked at Kontum Air Base. A maintenance team changed the engine, but the new one didn't start. Pilots then took off with only three engines under heavy mortar attack. The aircraft was hit with more mortar rounds during takeoff, puncturing the wings and damaging the other engines. The plane could only climb to 1,000 feet then made an emergency landing at Plieku Air Base, where mechanics determined she needed two new wings and four new engines. Preserved on Celebrity Row, taken through the glass of the AMARG graveyard tour bus from Pima.
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A rather special Hercules, the Purple Heart recipient. On 1st June 1972 she took a mortar round through the No. 3 engine while parked at Kontum Air Base. A maintenance team changed the engine, but the new one didn't start. Pilots then took off with only three engines under heavy mortar attack. The aircraft was hit with more mortar rounds during takeoff, puncturing the wings and damaging the other engines. The plane could only climb to 1,000 feet then made an emergency landing at Plieku Air Base, where mechanics determined she needed two new wings and four new engines. Preserved on Celebrity Row, taken through the glass of the AMARG graveyard tour bus from Pima.Camera
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Aircraft
- Reg: 63-7865 photos
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Aircraft:
Lockheed C-130E Hercules
- Airline: United States - US Air Force (USAF)
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Serial #:
382-3935
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Photo Location
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Tucson Davis-Monthan Air Force Base - KDMA
- USA - Arizona
