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 ...

Amidst the chaotic withdrawal of American forces from Saigon in April 1975, a young man in the South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF), Tinh Nguyen, peered out from a bunker at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. The ...

The National Warplane Museum, in Geneseo, New York, is home to an expansive and eclectic collection of both historic military and civilian aircraft. Some of the fleet is airworthy, such as the ...

The air tanker that crashed when its wings broke off while fighting a fire in the Sierra killing all three crewmen aboard, had had both wings replaced or repaired since 1998 because of cracks, ...

RENO -- The investigation of a firefighting tanker crash in the Sierra this summer has been hampered by missing records -- partly because the C-130A once flew spy missions for the CIA, a federal ...

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 ...