C-130 Hercules Camouflage Model Airplane

C130 Hercules Camouflage Model Airplane: An Exquisite Addition to Your Growing Collection

Our C130 Hercules Camouflage model airplane is delicately handcrafted and made of the finest grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Painstakingly and passionately worked by our master craftsmen on the C130 Hercules Camouflage model airplane's details, ensuring exactness and precision based on the original airplane.

Our museum-quality C 130 Hercules Camouflage model plane is truly unique and not constructed from kits. The C 130 Hercules Camouflage model plane comes with a sturdy, durable base with a chrome steel support mounting rod or you can have our variable pitch wall mount accessory, allowing your to be displayed either hanging on the wall or the ceiling for an added effect. This top-quality C 130 Hercules Camouflage model plane will surely be appreciated by anyone who receives this elegant desktop display as a gift.

The C-130 Hercules, a four-engine turboprop aircraft, is the main tactical air transport aircraft of the United States and United Kingdom military forces. The C130 made its first flight on 23 August 1954. Capable of landing and taking off from short, rough dirt runways, the C-130 is a personnel and cargo hauler and is used in a wide variety of other roles such as gunships, weather watchers, tankers, firefighters, and aerial ambulances. There are more than 40 versions of the Hercules and it is widely used by more than 50 nations establishing a long record of reliability and durability, participating in a variety of military, civilian, and humanitarian operations and environments.

The C-130 was intended to be replaced by USAF's AMST project. However, following AMST's cancellation the C-130 has remained in production. Today the only production model is the new C-130J. The C-130 holds claim to the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history. The first flight of the YC-130 prototype took place on August 23, 1954, from the Lockheed plant in Burbank, CA. The aircraft, serial number 53-3397, was piloted by Stanley Beltz and Roy Wimmer. After the two prototypes were completed production was moved to Marietta, GA, where workers have built more than 2,000 C-130s.

One of the famous events involving the unique capabilities of the Hercules was the 1976 Entebbe raid in which Israeli commando forces carried out a surprise assault to rescue 103 passengers of a hijacked airliner at Entebbe Airport, Uganda, Africa. Entebbe was 4,000 kilometers from Israel and the force of 200 soldiers, Jeeps, and a black Mercedes car (intended to resemble Idi Amin's vehicle of state) was ferried by 5 participating IAF Hercules aircraft without refueling. On the way back with the freed hostages they refueled in Nairobi, Kenya.