Lockheed TC-130Q Hercules (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

USA / Oklahoma / Midwest City / Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Bureau Number: 159348
Construction Number: 4601

This former US Navy TC-130Q TACAMO ("Take Charge and Move Out") aircraft served as a SIOP (Single Integrated Operational Plan) strategic communications link aircraft for the U.S. Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine force and as a backup communications link for USAF manned strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile forces.

Operating with VQ-4 from July 1975 through July 1988, this aircraft was modified to TC-130Q standard and began operations with VR-22, VXE-6 out of Tinker AFB. Serving as a "hack" aircraft with VQ-3 and VQ-4 by December 1995, it was placed on static display in March 1997.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_EC-130
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Coordinates:   35°24'13"N   97°23'45"W

Comments

  • I was a 21 year old Navy AME Second Class Petty Officer stationed at Agana, Guam in 1970. Oklahoma City was my home. The people i worked with were dead serious about their jobs. That world was so removed from what I knew in Oklahoma that I would stare at the moon to reassure myself it was the same one, and I would see Oklahoma again. Who would of thought this aircraft would end up at Tinker AFB. The aircraft I worked on had one antenna, otherwise I would say I flew and worked on it.
  • I was overcome with emotion when I saw this post that I didn't pay atention to detail. This craft does not have the tail number of the four stationed at Guam. One note though, on the door is a commemoration of a crew that died at Wake Island after my time by a few years. They were from Guam, VQ-3. Wake Island was a frequent stop for fuel. I recall seeing the movie "Woodstock" there somewhere around Christmas time in 1970.
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