A U.S. Air Force aircrew operates a C-130 Hercules over Fort McCoy air space on Sept. 15, 2023, at Fort McCoy, Wis. According to its Air Force fact sheet, the C-130 Hercules primarily performs the ...

BONO, Arkansas — An Arkansas highway turned into a runway for one of the military's biggest planes over the weekend as the Arkansas National Guard performed a historic exercise. Airlift Wing 189 ...

Dan Wilson, fixed wing parking tender with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, helps to launch a C-130 Hercules equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System Aug. 12, 2023, at the Klamath ...

10,000 flight hours in the C-130: the most hours ever recorded by a pilot in the Hercules. On Sept. 24, 2024, Gary Hogg, a seasoned test pilot logged his 10,000th flight hours in the C-130 Hercules ...

Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has booked a potential $140 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air ...

A C-130 Hercules astonishes Abilene residents as it travels to become a centerpiece at the Abilene Zoo for a groundbreaking ...

Hundreds of Air Force C-130 planes — including 22 assigned to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson — are being checked for possible cracks in the nuts that help fasten the wings to the fuselage. As ...

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, the Abilene Zoo is set to unveil a unique and historic attraction—a C-130 ...

The search continues for a missing engine from an Air Force C-130 airplane. The 3,500 pound engine caught on fire last night during a flight, then fell off. No one on the ground was hurt, and the ...

With a pared-down fiscal 2013 budget request on Capitol Hill and delays in the massive Joint Strike Fighter program, the U.S. Air Force is having to abandon a decade's worth of modernization plans for ...

TEL AVIV—The Israeli Air Force (IAF) chief ended the grounding of C-130 transport aircraft and 707 aerial refueling tankers on July 5. Both types were grounded last month. The grounding followed a ...