Fat Albert, a C-130T Hercules with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, performs during the 2015 MCAS Miramar Air Show aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif. US Marine Corps Photo.

T he Lockheed Martin KC-130T is the US Navy and US Marines ’ variant of the venerable C-130 Hercules. Its mission is aerial refueling (AR) for combat aircraft like jets and helicopters as well ...

Under AOU, the Navy plans to upgrade 25 of the C/KC-130T aircraft. Congress has appropriated about $163 million for the program thus far, including about $13.7 million in fiscal 2019 and $22.7 ...

Following the adoption of the eight-bladed NP2000 propeller, the U.S. Navy launched an effort to regain the air refueling capability across its fleet and allow the C/KC-130T to refuel a growing ...

The recently retired C-130T will be replaced by a surplus C-130J from the UK On June 24, ... Fat Albert, the C-130 Hercules assigned to the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, ...

The number includes Fat Albert, a C-130T with a Marine Corps crew that provides logistics and transportation to the Blue Angels, the Navy's elite aerial demonstration team.

The Navy has a fleet of about 24 C-130T/KC-130T Hercules but Lockheed Martin LMT stopped producing the T model (one of some 70 different Hercules variants) in 1996.

The Navy’s fleet of aircraft includes the C-130T known as “Fat Albert” that is part of the Navy’s Blue Angels precision air team, which will not fly at an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin ...

Nearly a year after the fiery crash of a Marine Corps Forces Reserve KC-130T killed 15 Marines and a Navy corpsman, most of the Navy’s C-130 fleet remains grounded due to lack of new propellers ...

Military photographers aboard a Navy C-130T Hercules transport airplane, assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 54 at the air station, will follow the formations, according to the statement.

The first Navy C-130T Hercules to receive commercial Global Positioning System cockpit modifications completed flight testing at Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Zero, Naval Air Station ...

Following the adoption of the eight-bladed NP2000 propeller, the U.S. Navy launched an effort to regain the air refueling ...