USA — 250TH C‑130J Super Hercules Built Is Delivered

This is the 15th  C‑130J deliv­ered to the 317th Air­lift Group at Dyess since 2010 and the sec­ond of 11 air­craft to be deliv­ered to the base in 2012. Dyess will have the dis­tinc­tion of being home to the largest C‑130J fleet in the world when it receives its 28th Super Her­cules air­craft in 2013.

“The C‑130J is the most ver­sa­tile air­lifter in the world,” said Lor­raine Mar­tin, Lock­heed Mar­tin, vice pres­i­dent for C‑130 pro­grams. “Since the J‑model was first intro­duced, it has been the work­horse of air­lift world­wide. This mile­stone is a tes­ta­ment to the hard work and ded­i­ca­tion of the C‑130 enterprise.”

Last month Lock­heed Mar­tin deliv­ered the 2,400th C‑130 built to U.S. Air Force Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand. The C‑130 pro­duc­tion line in Mari­et­ta is the longest con­tin­u­ous­ly oper­at­ing mil­i­tary air­craft pro­duc­tion line in history. 

Head­quar­tered in Bethes­da, Md., Lock­heed Mar­tin is a glob­al secu­ri­ty com­pa­ny that employs about 123,000 peo­ple world­wide and is prin­ci­pal­ly engaged in the research, design, devel­op­ment, man­u­fac­ture, inte­gra­tion and sus­tain­ment of advanced tech­nol­o­gy sys­tems, prod­ucts and ser­vices. The Corporation’s net sales for 2011 were $46.5 billion.