345 TAS Aircraft . . . - Pacific Airlifter

62-1805 – June 5, 1972: C-130E , c/n 3759, of the 37th Tactical Airlift Squadron, loaned to the 374th Tactical Airlift Wing – crashed in sea near Makung, Taiwan after suffering landing gear explosion while in traffic pattern. Pilot retracted landing gear while brake assembly was overheated. Denied sufficient cooling air after retraction into well, the port aft wheel assembly exploded damaging wheel well bulkhead, rupturing several hydraulic lines, the fluid from which was then ignited by the hot components resulting in loss of control of the aircraft.

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62-1843 December 20, 1965: C-130E , c/n 3805, of the 345th Troop Carrier Squadron, 314th Troop Carrier Wing, crashed into hill during approach to Tuy Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, according to Lars Olausson. Chris Hobson gives the following account: “…the first Hercules assumed to be lost in the air to enemy action [in Southeast Asia]. The aircraft was attempting to land at Tuy Hoa under a very low cloud base when it was hit by ground fire five miles south of the air base and crashed killing all [five] crew…Enemy action was never actually confirmed to have caused the loss of this aircraft which may have simply flown into high ground in poor visibility.” (Vietnam Air Losses, Page 44). Serial number subsequently assigned to C-130E 64-0506, c/n 3990 in 1973, which was assigned “to another agency” December 31, 1964, and flew Air America missions in support of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations in Southeast Asia in a “sanitized” condition. Modified to C-130E(I). Reappeared at Hurlburt Field, Florida in the early 1970s, carrying 62–1843 identity, as C-130E(I), redesignated MC-130E in early 1977. Assigned to the 711th Special Operations Squadron at Duke Field, Eglin Air Force Base Aux. Field 3, in October 1995, c/n 3990, the faux 62-1843, was still there as of December 2005. The builders plate reads what the Air Force wants it to read, but the airframe hours tell no lies, and the identity is an open secret on the flightline.^[77] Seen at Eglin AFB with no markings aside from serials, February 2009.

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62-1852 (MSN 382-3816) 7/63: TOS USAF and assigned to 516th Troop Carrier Wing, 839th Air Division, Dyess AFB, TX. 
By 1974: 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. 
By 1978: 756th TAS, 459th TAW, Andrews AFB, MD. 
By 4/88 : 96th Airlift Squadron, 934th Airlift Wing, Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport-Air Reserve Station), MN.
5/04: 327th Airlift Squadron, 913th Operations Group, Willow Grove Air Reserve Station, PA. 
2/06: 314th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, Little Rock, AR. 
To AMARC as CF0313 Sep 1, 2009.  
Seen at Davis-Monthan AMARC on 8/28/2017

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62-1795 (MSN 382-3746) Ca.1963: TOS USAF and assigned to 1608th Air Transport Wing (Military Airlift Command), Charleston AFB, SC.
By 12/27/65: Unit redesignated as 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, SC. 
By 1966: 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 314th Troop Carrier Wing, Sewart AFB, TN. 
By 3/66: Unit deployed to Ching Chaun Kang Air Base, Taiwan. 
Ca. 5/71: 345th TAS became under 374th Airlift Wing at Ching Chaun Kang Air Base. 
Ca.1974: 130th TAS, West Virginia ANG, Charleston ANGB, WV. 
By 10/87: 154th TAS, Arkansas ANG, Little Rock AFB, AR. now a ground trainer as GC-130E at Sheppard AFB. 
Mark Sublette has this as still active with 154th TAS in 2001.  Noted Mar 2003 as ground trainer with 82nd TRW.  
For sale at auction by Government Liquidation at Sheppard AFB, TX, Oct 11, 2017
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621805 (MSN 382-3759, 374th TAW) crashed into sea near Makung, Pescadores Islands Jun 5, 1972 when landing gear exploded in traffic pattern.

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63-7772 – March 12, 1967: C-130E , c/n 3838, of the 345th Troop Carrier Squadron, crashed on take-off from An Khe, South Vietnam – disturbance by helicopter.

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63-7777

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is 130262564_10223884738695818_3083623483380920260_o.jpg — 63-7777 at Kadena AB, December 1974 (Paul Hooper)

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-64-1024x703.png — 63-7777 at Utapao RTNB, May 1975 (Paul Hooper)

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is 130589996_10158576796360781_2520391413350391585_n.jpg — Many/Quad/Bunch o’ Sevens at AMARC in 2004…today in pieces at Kirtland (Matt Hurley)

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637800

______________________________________________________________________________63-7802 – September 30, 1974: C-130E c/n 3868, of the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, crashed on landing at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Failure of throttle cable on number four engine was determined to be the cause of the accident. All five flight deck crew members survived by exiting through the pilot and copilot’s swing windows. Loadmaster exited through rear troop door. No fatalities.

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637803

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637811