ROYAL BAHRAINI AIR FORCE RECEIVES FIRST HERCULES C-130J

Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has delivered the first Royal Bahraini Air Force C-130J aircraft.
The Bahrain Defence Force recently purchased two Royal Air Force C-130J aircraft from the UK Ministry of Defence and contracted Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group to carry out depth maintenance, ensure entry into service and provide elements of an initial operational capability set up.
After completing a depth maintenance inspection in Cambridge, United Kingdom, which included some minor modifications and a full aircraft repaint, #702 was delivered to the customer. It is anticipated that the aircraft could attend the prestigious Bahrain Air Show on the 14th November 2018.
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Marshall Aerospace delivers Austria's first upgraded Hercules

Austria's air force has received its first of three Lockheed Martin C-130K tactical transports to have undergone avionics modernisation in the UK, with its second example due to enter work next month.
Hercules 8T-CC has received an updated flight management system, replacement autopilot and radar altimeter and new multi-function cockpit displays. One of three surplus transports acquired from the UK Royal Air Force in 2002, the C-130K had entered modification in January 2013.
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Austria's first Hercules enters modernisation programme

The UK's Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has begun a maintenance and modernisation programme on the Austrian air force's first Lockheed Martin C-130K tactical transport, under a deal announced in late 2011.
Now undergoing work at the company's Cambridge airport site in eastern England, the Austrian aircraft is one of three to have been acquired from surplus UK Royal Air Force stocks in 2002.
Originally delivered between 1967 and 1968, the K-model Hercules will receive new avionics equipment to address obsolescence issues and to overcome operational restrictions in European airspace

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Upgraded Dutch C-130s in unique get-together

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has demonstrated its full fleet of four modernised Lockheed Martin C-130H tactical transports together for the first time, following the introduction to service of its last example to have been upgraded by the UK's Marshall Aerospace.

Pictured at Eindhoven air base, the quartet comprises two stretched-fuselage C-130H-30s introduced in 1994 and two short-fuselage Hercules acquired from ex-US Navy stocks, and the subject of a major modernisation effort in the UK.

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