On Sunday, one of the Minnesota Air National Guard’s most legendary aircraft celebrates 50 years. The C-130A first went wheels-up on Feb. 21, 1971. While the plane has kept up with technology over the ...

FORT LEE, Va. (June 23, 2011) -- A C-130A Hercules joined Fort Lee's tiny Air Force fleet Saturday when it arrived by truck from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The 116-foot-long aircraft no longer ...

The C-130A Hercules on the tarmac at Sequoia Field Airport, north of Visalia, certainly has seen better days. Despite a storied history that includes flying in airshows, transporting supplies to ...

The aircraft the Minnesota Air National Guard used to transport airmen from around the country to President Joe Biden’s inauguration celebrates 50 years of service. The C-130A first flew its first ...

NTSB STUDYING C-130A CRASH SEQUENCE - A National Transportation Safety Board team completed its site survey of a C-130A that crashed during a firefighting mission June 17 in Walker, Calif., and plans ...

Over the three years that he has worked at the Bob Wiley Detention Facility north of Visalia, Stephen Fagundes frequently has noticed the C-130A Hercules airplane parked on the tarmac at neighboring ...

The air tanker that crashed when its wings broke off while fighting a fire in the Sierra killing all three crewmen aboard, had had both wings replaced or repaired since 1998 because of cracks, ...

The nation's C-130A air tankers, workhorse of the firefighting fleet, were grounded Tuesday in the midst of what could become one of the worst fire seasons in history after a plane lost its wings and ...

There is no shortage of military airplanes out there looking for civilian owners, but most of the time these so-called warbirds come in the form of single- or two-seater aircraft from the Second World ...

RENO -- The investigation of a firefighting tanker crash in the Sierra this summer has been hampered by missing records -- partly because the C-130A once flew spy missions for the CIA, a federal ...