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Article: 130th Airlift Wing celebrate arrival of new cargo planess
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 6, 2006
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Only months after escaping a plan that would have stripped the
West Virginia Air National Guard's 130th Airlift Wing of its planes,
the unit has a new fleet.
The Charleston-based unit celebrated the arrival of the last of
nine C-130H3 Hercules cargo planes on Saturday.
The planes, which had been based at the 167th Airlift Wing in
Martinsburg, replace nine older C-130H2 models as part of a
modernization of both units.
The Martinsburg unit will get C-5 Galaxy aircraft, among the
largest in the world, next year.
"We're saying goodbye to an old friend that has taken care of us
for 33 years," said Lt. Andrew Schmidt, the 167th Airlift Wing's
public information officer.
After the planes touched ...