First Luftwaffe Super Hercules
On 7 May 2021, the Luftwaffe (GAF, German Air Force) showed photos of the construction of the first C-130J Super Hercules at Lockheed Martin's facility at Marietta-Dobbins ARB (GA). The Super Hercules, construction number 382-5930, is the first of six aircraft, three C-130J-30s and three KC-130Js, that will be delivered between the end of this year and 2023.
The GAF Hercules will be delivered to Base Aérienne 105 (BA105) Evreux/Fauville (France, Normandy) to join the new Franco-German Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules squadron.
On 21 September 2020, Scramble Magazine reported on the new combined squadron, when the German minister of defence Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the French minister of defence Florence Parly symbolically laid the foundation stone for the new unit.
The yet unnamed squadron will operate ten C-130J transport aircraft, four French and six German, by 2023. It will be operated by 260 airmen, 130 French and 130 Germans. The four French aircraft, two C-130J-30s and two KC-130Js, have already been delivered to Escadre de Transport 2/61 Franche-Comté (ET02.061) at BA123 in Orléans/Bricy before moving to Evreux/Fauville in the summer of 2021.
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