The Air Force is grounding nearly a third of its C-130 fleet at a time when the service is struggling to keep its planes ready for missions.

According to Greek Mythology, Hercules was a demigod with incredible strength and stamina, capable of amazing feats and renowned throughout ancient Greece and Rome. While we'd never suggest that the C ...

The C-130 was built with longevity in mind. The airframe was over-engineered to be tough. The skin is thick. The frame is stress tolerant. Four robust turboprop engines deliver thrust and control ...

A Lockheed C-130 transport plane made an emergency landing, crashed and caught fire at the Santa Barbara Airport in Southern California late Sunday night, but the seven people on board escaped unhurt, ...

America’s C-130 transport plane is one of the most iconic and reliable workhorses of the United States military. It first saw action in the Vietnam War, when the United States needed to transport ...

Willis M. Hawkins, the designer of the military transport aircraft known as the C-130 Hercules, died Tuesday at his home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 90. The C-130 is one of the few planes in the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A defense funding bill that would delay efforts to end a program at Oklahoma City's Boeing plant to upgrade the cockpits of U.S. Air Force C-130 transport planes was approved ...

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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has attributed the diversion of its C-130 transport aircraft to a “technical concern” that forced the crew to make a “precautionary landing” in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina ...

Six American service members were killed early Friday when a U.S. C-130 transport plane crashed at an airport in Afghanistan, NBC News reported. The crash happened shortly after midnight local time (3 ...

The recently forced emergency landing of a Nigerian Air Force C‑130 transport aircraft in Bobo‑Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, has ...