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YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Compared to the typical aircraft hangar, these are palaces, Yokota maintainers say. This week, the base plans to unveil two new multimillion-dollar C-130 hangars on ...
On Feb. 21, 2013, a formation of six C-130 Hercules from Yokota Air Base, Japan participated in a mission whose aim was to practice large formation airlift tactics and procedures. In the image ...
The following video was recorded on Dec. 14, from a C-130 with the 36th Airlift Squadron from Yokota Air Base, Japan, as the cargo plane (departed from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam) delivered ...
The 374th Airlift Wing in Yokota emphasized the collaborative history of the C-130 in its own news release for the celebration. “Grandfathers, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons and grandchildren ...
The Air Force said farewell to its last C-130H active-duty squadron in Japan. The 36th Airlift Squadron, based at Yokota Air Base, recently sent off its older H Hercules models, Air Mobility ...
A decommissioned C-130 Hercules Air Force cargo plane has been delivered to the University of Dayton for research. Here, C-130s taxi out for a six-ship sortie at Yokota Air Base, Japan.
ORLANDO, Fla., April 27 (UPI) --Lockheed Martin reports it has received more than $80 million in contracts from the U.S. Air Force for C-130 aircrew and maintenance training solutions. The ...
In September 2016, fuel leaked from a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft in mid-flight. The report describing the spill reads, "The plane had 40 kilopounds (about 18,000 kilograms) of fuel ...
Ryuzo Fukumoto's house shakes and a roar can be heard overhead around 40 times a day on average -- sometimes even at night. "I have had to put up with this for 50 years," said Fukumoto, 84. His ...