That's a long service history for any aircraft. Lockheed's C-130 endures because it's the true workhorse of the U.S. Air ...

Read about the Air Force's plan to raise the C-130J Combined Aircraft Delivery, Development, Integration and Engineering contract's ceiling to $25 billion.

Designed specifically to transport ... The C-130 features a loading ramp and door in the tail that can accomodate palletized loads, vehicles and troops. The aircraft can airdrop up to 42,000 ...

C-130H Hercules fleet has been a cornerstone of New Zealand’s air transport capability, serving both at home and abroad.

Turboprops are typically more fuel-efficient and cheaper to operate, so it's not entirely unusual for a large transport aircraft to use them — the C-130 Hercules is also a four-engine turboprop ...

Aircraft number 5994 arrived at Kirtland AFB on 14 January after rolling off Lockheed Martin's production line in Marietta, ...

A surprisingly simple tweak is making a venerable military transport aircraft more efficient. Literally gluing a few microvanes to the rear fuselage of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane can result in ...

New Zealand has completed its transition to Lockheed Martin's J-model Hercules, with its last operational flights with the ...

A Uruguayan Hercules C-130 transport aircraft performed the South American country's last relief flight, bringing out people from war-torn Israel to Madrid while Argentina was still evacuating its ...

After more than 100,000 take-offs and landings and 60 years in the air, New Zealand is finally saying farewell to its fleet ...

An Air Self-Defense Force C-130 transport aircraft on a mission to evacuate Japanese nationals from conflict-ridden Sudan departed Japan on the afternoon of April 21. The aircraft lifted off from ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. PETERSON SFB, Colo. – U.S. Northern Command has activated eight C-130 aircraft equipped with Modular Aerial Fire Fighting ...