Lockheed C-130 Hercules Family
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop transport family designed to carry people and bulky cargo into short, rough, and austere airfields. Its high wing, low cargo floor, rear loading ramp, and reconfigurable pressurized hold support airlift, medical evacuation, disaster relief, firefighting, weather reconnaissance, polar resupply, search and rescue, and many other missions. Successive C-130A through C-130J and civil L-100 derivatives have kept the design in continuous production for more than seven decades.
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Identity
- Aliases
- C-130HerculesC-130AC-130BC-130EC-130HC-130J Super HerculesL-100 HerculesLM-100J
- Family Name
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Full Name
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules Family
- Roles
- cargomilitaryutilitysearch_and_rescuefirefightingair_ambulanceweatherreconnaissance
- Status
- active
- Type
- aircraft
Details
- Aircraft Specs
- Configuration
- fixed_wing
- Operating Modes
- land
- Takeoff Landing Capabilities
- stol
- Description
- The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop transport family designed to carry people and bulky cargo into short, rough, and austere airfields. Its high wing, low cargo floor, rear loading ramp, and reconfigurable pressurized hold support airlift, medical evacuation, disaster relief, firefighting, weather reconnaissance, polar resupply, search and rescue, and many other missions. Successive C-130A through C-130J and civil L-100 derivatives have kept the design in continuous production for more than seven decades.
- Dimensions
- Height M
- 12.01
- Wingspan M
- 39.7
- First Flight Year
- 1,954
- Manufacturer
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Name
- C-130H exact T56-A-15 configuration
- Notes
- Applies only to the C-130H branch within the broader Lockheed C-130 Hercules family record. The USAF separately documents C-130E with T56-A-7 and C-130J with AE 2100D3; those sibling installations remain unmodeled here until exact canonical records are prepared.
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- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 09:13:52 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 1, 2026 at 18:22:31 UTC