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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130A Hercules
    Last Military Serial:A97-212 RAAF
    Construction Number:3212
    Last Civil Registration:N131EC
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130A sn A97-212 RAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pacific Aircraft Services Llc, Amboy, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a C-130A.

    Circa 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-0505.

    5 January 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A97-212 and operated with these markings: VM-JLK.
    The delivery date is provided.

    24 May 1978

    Civil registration N2268A reserved but not taken up.
    Reserved for Global Jet Sales/Parmax of Fort Worth, TX.

    By June 1983

    To unknown owner with c/r SK-3016X.
    Painted in error.

    To Aviaco Colombia with new c/r HK-3016X.
    Sale blocked by US State Department.

    February 1985

    To Ford and Vlahos with new c/r N13FV.

    March 1989

    To Fowler Aeronautical Service with new c/r N213DW.

    1993

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Dothan Alabamha.

    April 1995

    To Maxturbine with new c/r N130PS.

    29 March 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR131EC (C-130A, 3212) issued.

    7 August 1996


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1996 Photo at Chandler Memorial as N130PS

    1999


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: At Mesa Falcon Field ( MCS) in Summer 1999

    17 June 2002

    To Cherry Air Aviation Services Inc, Boyce, LA with new c/r N131EC.

    20 September 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR131EC (C-130A, 3212) issued.

    20 May 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR131EC (C-130A, 3212) issued.

    25 January 2012

    To Cherry Air Aviation Services Inc, Alexandria, LA keeping c/r N131EC.
    Believed operating as a skydiving aircraft.

    Based at Cherry Air Aviation Services, Alexandrea International Airport, Alexandria, LA.
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    11 January 2013

    To JNS Aircraft Sales Llc, Nara Visa, NM keeping c/r N131EC.

    18 August 2018

    To Mark A. Smith, Woodland, WA keeping c/r N131EC.

    4 December 2021

    Civil registration, N131EC, cancelled.

    27 April 2024

    To Pacific Aircraft Services Llc, Amboy, WA keeping c/r N131EC.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     C-130 Hercules.net
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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