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Another J-model for the Lone Star State

Lockheed Martin delivered another C-130J Super Hercules to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, on May 3.

Lockheed Martin delivered another C-130J Super Hercules built at the Marietta site to Dyess Air Force Base in Texas on May 3.

This aircraft was the 19th of 28 C-130Js being delivered to Dyess. Maj. Gen. Scott M. Hanson, commander, Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education and commandant, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, accepted delivery of the aircraft and flew it to Dyess.

The C-130 production line in  is the longest continuously operating military aircraft production line in history.

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The at the Lockheed Martin Marietta site was delivered to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 16.

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