First Flight of the C-130A Hercules - 7 April 1955 -- The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed, now Lockheed Martin.

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 ...

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 ...