Tanker 122, Cal Fire’s first operational C-130H, was on full display Thursday at Cal Fire’s aviation headquarters at McClellan Airport. The aircraft is one of seven C-130 Hercules that the department ...

California's latest weapon in the never-ending war against wildfires, a former military plane repurposed to drop fire retardant, has deployed on its first mission in Riverside County. CAL FIRE's first ...

SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- A massive C-130 Hercules aircraft was recently added to CAL FIRE's firefighting fleet and it's already being used. California is the first state in the country to own, operate, ...

The project is reconstructing the aging tarmac and fire-retardant loading bays — all in an effort to increase efficiency and ...

The Air Force has returned two C-130H cargo planes to flight status after part of the Hercules fleet was grounded last month amid concerns about cracks in their propeller barrel assemblies, a service ...

The Portuguese Air Force has taken delivery of the first of four upgraded Lockheed C-130H Hercules transport aircraft, despite their imminent replacement by Embraer’s C-390 airlifter. The upgrade ...

Cracks have been discovered in older propeller barrel assemblies of some Air Force C-130H Hercules aircraft. This led to a grounding of some C-130H aircraft for inspections, potentially affecting up ...

The Air Force grounded more than 100 of its workhorse turboprop C-130 Hercules aircraft after officials at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., discovered cracks in the propeller barrel assembly of one of the ...

Taiwan is in the process of gathering information to upgrade the avionics on its 20 Lockheed Martin C-130H military transport aircraft. A request for information (RFI) was issued on the U.S.