Dyess Arrivals...

Posted 8 September 2011

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Photo by Todd R. McQueen

The sixth C-130J Super Hercules was delivered to Dyess AFB, Texas, on 8 September. Lt. Gen. Robert Allardice, 18th Air Force commander, flew the aircraft (Air Force serial number 08-3175) to its new home. The 317th Airlift Group at Dyess continues to transition to the new C-130J Super Hercules. By 2013 when Dyess is scheduled to receive its twenty-eighth C-130J, the base near Abilene will have the largest Super Hercules fleet in the Air Force. Officials at Dyess officials first accepted the base’s first C-130A and C-130D models in 1961, and the unit currently flies both the C-130H and C-130J models.

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PHOTO BY TODD R. McQUEEN

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