Civilian Hercules?

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Was out walking in the Peak District today, spotted a 4 engined turboprop flying over. By the time I found my binoculars it was a long way off, but it looked like a Hercules (for some reason I thought it was a Belfast at first, but doubt there are any left) in the old white/grey/blue flash livery. Unlikely, so are there any civilian C-130’s around with a similar light coloured finish?

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towser44 said:

mikeiow said:

A particularly knowledgable friend of mine had this to say to this (he's not on PH!):

There are no Belfasts left, only ever built 12 and they're long retired.
Antonov An-12 is a good shout as there have been a couple flying into Doncaster lately carting freight about.
One is orange, but the other is white and grey, much like the old RAF transport command livery.
Key giveaway is that they smoke like mad.
RAF and USAF Hercules are fairly common but usually dark grey or green.

Apparantly this one went over Chesterfield into Donny this afternoon: https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8770960

Looking at the playback on Flightradar the AN-12 above was heading North West skirting the edge of the Peak District and went over Chesterfield and then turned East at Hathersage at approx 12.40pm. Not sure if that ties in with when you saw the plane.

That’s exactly it, 12:40 turning east. I was at Burbage, Hathersage is a couple of miles away.

No smoke from the engines, but maybe little throttle if it was descending?

Thanks - that’s sorted that out.