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463rd Airlift Group

http://www.littlerock.af.mil/

The 463 Airlift Group is a direct reporting unit of over 1,200 Airmen employing 30 C-130 aircraft performing worldwide airlift missions. It provides direct support to warfighting combatant commanders with theater combat aerial delivery of personnel and their re-supply worldwide while executing a 23,000 hour flying program and operating a budget of over $60 million. The 463rd AG is comprised of five squadrons - two flying, two maintenance and one support.

Units
50th Airlift Squadron
61st Airlift Squadron
463rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron
463rd Maintenance Squadron
463rd Operations Support Squadron  

   

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...Is to provide a central place to dispense information concerning our bi-annual reunion and other topics of general interest to the men and women who served. 

Official Observatory Time Hack

" C-119 "Flying Box Car

C-130E - Assault Landing - Khe Sahn

THE LOCKHEED HERCULES C-130D

Prior to 1959, the United States Air Force requested Lockheed to modify
twelve of its C-130 "A" models (57-0484 through 57-0495) to C-130D's. These modified aircraft were delivered in February, March, and April, of 1959. The new "D" model 130's were then assigned to the 61st Troop Carrier Squadron which was based at Sewart AFB, Tennessee.

Air crews from the squadron were sent TDY to Bemidji, Minnesota in early 1959, to train on a frozen lake prior to being sent to Sondrestrom AB, Greenland. Each crew was required to complete five takeoffs and landings in order to be qualified. The airlift to build DYE II and DYE III was begun on April 1, 1959. By the end of December, 1960, the entire DYE site project was completed and the 61st TCS had returned to Sewart.

 
 The C-130D model's main skis were twenty feet long by five feet six inches
wide. They had an eight degree nose-up and 15 degree nose down pitch which enabled them to move up and down and follow the uneven ice cap surfaces. The undersides were coated with Teflon to reduce surface friction and to resist adhesion to ice and snow.  
  
The "D" model nose ski measured ten feet long by five feet six inches wide.
As with the main skis, the bottom of the nose ski was coated with Teflon in
order to reduce friction and surface adhesion.  

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Telephone: (479) 582-9436
 
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Postal address:   Ben Hendrickson, Ph.D.  (LTC, Ret.)
                           225 Cottonwood Ave.                           
                        Fayetteville, AR 72701-0546
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General Information: sirben@61tcs.org
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