USAF To Finish C-130H Fix By September

A C-130H at Hill AFB, Utah, in March 2023.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii—The U.S. Air Force will complete repairs on all of the aircraft in its C-130H fleet by the end of September after cracks in propeller blades forced a grounding of the fleet beginning in September 2022. Air Mobility Command (AMC) says as of the end of July, 84%...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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