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Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1/C.3 XV212 Code 212
Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1/C.3 XV212/212 was built as a C-130K Hercules C.1 in 1967, It appeared in the first camouflage scheme to be applied to a Hercules C.1, and entered front-line service in October 1967. As one of thirty of the original batch of Hercules C.1s, XV212 was subsequently given a stretched fuselage, by the insertion of two plugs in the fore and aft sections of the fuselage. The work was done at Marshalls of Cambridge; the aircraft then being designated as a C.3. The aircraft is an asset of the Lyneham Transport Wing.
Photographed: SBAC 50th Anniversary Air Show, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, UK. 11-12 September 1982.
Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1/C.3 XV212 Code 212
Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1/C.3 XV212/212 was built as a C-130K Hercules C.1 in 1967, It appeared in the first camouflage scheme to be applied to a Hercules C.1, and entered front-line service in October 1967. As one of thirty of the original batch of Hercules C.1s, XV212 was subsequently given a stretched fuselage, by the insertion of two plugs in the fore and aft sections of the fuselage. The work was done at Marshalls of Cambridge; the aircraft then being designated as a C.3. The aircraft is an asset of the Lyneham Transport Wing.
Photographed: SBAC 50th Anniversary Air Show, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, UK. 11-12 September 1982.