Civilian Hercules?

[Eric Mc]

I remember seeing one of these back in the 1970s -

[ecsrobin]

Holy thread resurrection the OSRL C130 appears to have had a crashed landing https://www.airlive.net/breaking-a-private-c-130-h...

[thegreenhell]

One for sale here - https://www.platinumfighters.com/c-130a

[eccles]

thegreenhell said:

One for sale here - https://www.platinumfighters.com/c-130a

Same price as a spitfire, but more original and rarer!

[petop]

eccles said:

petop said:

Ref civ L100. I use one as part of my job to get stuff from A to B.

When I say "I" I mean I use a contractor to operate/fly it for me.

Its operated by TRANSAFRIK. This plane has also just had a staring role in the latest Raid On Entebbe remake.

We used to fix Transafrik aircraft at Cambridge, out of all the operators they were definitely at the bottom of the list when it came to spending money, and top of the list when it came to fixing bullet holes etc.!

Funny you should say that as we were shot at on a mission out of a base. 6 rounds it took. Needless to say the pilots were a little wary of flying again into the same airbase. So i went cap in hand to the military unit we were helping out which produced a few attack helicopters to provide cover.
They are still out there flying daily missions and to be fair are pretty reliable. Of course those niggling faults that would put a mil maintained airframe unserviceable are probably "worked around"!!

Arriving at one such base, dodgy looking bloke with numerous night vision lenses on his helmet marshalling us in.

[Yertis]

petop said:

Of course those niggling faults that would put a mil maintained airframe unserviceable are probably "worked around"!!

That explains the zip-ties and bulldog clips, and this:

[MarkwG]

ecsrobin said:

Holy thread resurrection the OSRL C130 appears to have had a crashed landing https://www.airlive.net/breaking-a-private-c-130-h...

They have/had five, the crashed one is one of the others.

[ecsrobin]

MarkwG said:

ecsrobin said:

Holy thread resurrection the OSRL C130 appears to have had a crashed landing https://www.airlive.net/breaking-a-private-c-130-h...

They have/had five, the crashed one is one of the others.

The aircraft is operated/owned by international air response but the aircraft is in OSRL colours so either sub contracting or not rebranded yet?

[MarkwG]

ecsrobin said:

MarkwG said:

ecsrobin said:

Holy thread resurrection the OSRL C130 appears to have had a crashed landing https://www.airlive.net/breaking-a-private-c-130-h...

They have/had five, the crashed one is one of the others.

The aircraft is operated/owned by international air response but the aircraft is in OSRL colours so either sub contracting or not rebranded yet?

They have/had a couple in the OSRL scheme, N119TG & N121TG at least; I guess it's sub contract work. It's N119TG that's crashed, N121TG's still going.

[ecsrobin]

MarkwG said:

They have/had a couple in the OSRL scheme, N119TG & N121TG at least; I guess it's sub contract work. It's N119TG that's crashed, N121TG's still going.

Certainly in the UK it was sub contract work. We operated the islander for them and cobham a dornier. I believe both are now operated by a different contractor.

[MarkwG]

ecsrobin said:

Certainly in the UK it was sub contract work. We operated the islander for them and cobham a dornier. I believe both are now operated by a different contractor.

Makes sense: a guy I vaguely know through a mate flew a or the Cobham Dornier for a while, acting as bait with the Falcons. He's moved on, I think, & I've not seen it for a while.

[Ayahuasca]

Iron Man, Iron Man this is Wild Goose, over.

[andy97]

There appeared to be one at East Mids Airport this morning, although I only got a quick view of the top of the tail as i was in traffic.