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Spectre_I
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Just came in and donated Friday. Hadn't flown for 13 years. Took about a year and a half to get her airworthy for the ferry. Probably won't be out on display for a couple years.

This old gal has quite a history, according to our curation folks. This is an "A" model, and was one of the Four Horsemen. We will be restoring it to that look and condition.

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Circa 1997 an A Model was put on display near NSA in Maryland as a memorial to the crew lost when an RC-130 was shot down by the Russians in the early 60s (they do seem to love shooting down unarmed aircraft).
It was still active at that time, before putting it on display they found a set of three-blade "A" props.

I wonder where they found those (does the AF Museum store stuff like that?) and I was impressed that someone notice and took the time to make it correct.

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C-130A 56-473/N473TM as one of the Four Horsemen, circa 1960:
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Nice! I wonder if some 3 bladed props could be found. I always do a double take when I see a herky bird with the original props.
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A nice addition there!

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Nice! I wonder if some 3 bladed props could be found. I always do a double take when I see a herky bird with the original props.

Yes they can, and we've already got them. :) They'll be on this aircraft when it goes out to display. We'll restore her back to original condition as much as possible.

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Was this the same bird sitting at Visalia airport?
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Malo83 wrote:
Was this the same bird sitting at Visalia airport?


Yes (sort of), Sequoia Field.

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Spectre_I wrote:
sandiego89 wrote:
Nice! I wonder if some 3 bladed props could be found. I always do a double take when I see a herky bird with the original props.

Yes they can, and we've already got them. :) They'll be on this aircraft when it goes out to display. We'll restore her back to original condition as much as possible.


Great- she will look great with the retro props and scheme!
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sandiego89 wrote:
Nice! I wonder if some 3 bladed props could be found.


Almost impossible now...

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Cool project. Will she get a "Roman" nose or retain the radar nose?

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K5DH wrote:
Cool project. Will she get a "Roman" nose or retain the radar nose?

The goal will be to make it as it appears in the picture above, taken from this video:

This is airplane 473 in the video.
https://youtu.be/qjZMWI77b84

She's got the radar nose there. All of our other pictures of it throughout its service life have it with a black radar nose. So, that's what it'll get. In fact, it's already on it :)

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APG85 wrote:
sandiego89 wrote:
Nice! I wonder if some 3 bladed props could be found.


Almost impossible now...


In our case, the donor had them.

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That plane never had a "Roman Nose"...

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