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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...