ROKAF Receives Additional C-130Js

Posted 30 May 2014

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Two additional C-130J Super Hercules airlifters for the Republic of Korea Air Force, or ROKAF, were ferried from the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Georgia, on 30 May 2014. The aircraft (ROKAF serial numbers 45747 and 45750) will be flown to Gimhae AB in Pusan, South Korea, where they will join two C-130Js delivered in March 2014. The ROKAF, which also currently operates C-130Hs, is the fourteenth operator to fly C-130Js.

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