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Showing posts with label CC-130 Hercules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CC-130 Hercules. Show all posts
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Canada-UN at Odds on Restrictions for C-130 Deployment to Africa

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By: Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press  OTTAWA — The United Nations is pushing back against restrictions Canada wants to put on the use of a...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

RCAF Members Arrive in Brazil for Exercise CRUZEX FLIGHT

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RCAF Press Release  8 Wing Trenton Today, members of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) begin participation in CRUZEX FLIGHT 18, a key Sout...
Friday, October 19, 2018

CAF Ditches Plan for New Paint Scheme on SAR Aircraft

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By: David Pugliese, The National Post  Canada’s military has reversed its plan to abandon the familiar yellow paint scheme for the country’s...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

RCAF Dispatches Support for Hurricane Harvey

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RCAF Press Release A Royal Canadian Air Force CC130J Hercules departed 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario for Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, carryin...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

RCAF details on Exercise PUMA STRIKE

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RCAF News By Captain Mathew Strong Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) crews, support personnel and technicians deployed to Exercise Puma Strike...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

RCAF Marks Completion of Upgrades to CC-130J Hercules

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DND Press Release Yesterday, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) marked the completion of a major upgrade of all 17 CC-130J Hercules aircraf...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Canadian and Australian J-model Hercules crews train together at Bondi Beach

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By Eamon Hamilton Canadian Hercules crews recently visited their Australian counterparts to share knowledge and fly a combined airlift train...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Exercise Pitch Black provides ‘unique’ experience for RCAF

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By Flight Lieutenant Nick O’Connor Befriending Australian wildlife was just one challenge thrown at the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) duri...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Canadian firm wants to buy used Norwegian CC-130Hs for RCAF for use in Arctic

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By: David Pugliese, The National Post  A Canadian firm wants Ottawa to buy older transport aircraft from Norway, saying this could significa...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Boxtop Flight 22: Honouring the memory of “some fantastic Canadians”

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RCAF Press Release From Royal Canadian Air Force Public Affairs Under the hands of 8 Wing Commander Colonel Colin Keiver, a CC-130J Hercules...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Lockheed Gets Sole-sourced Maintenance deal on CC-130 Hercules

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By: Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa Citizen  OTTAWA — Months before a mini-war of words over the F-35 stealth fighter, the federal government and Loc...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Canadian Special Forces and Canadian Submarines Working Together

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By:  BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH , Ottawa Bureau, The Toronto Star A daring parachute drop last fall by Canadian special forces soldiers undersco...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Canadians to hold key positions in RIMPAC; while U.S. politicians want to ban China from military exercise

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By: David Pugliese, Defence Watch  RIMPAC 16 gets underway June 30 and runs until August 4 in the Hawaiian and Southern California area. The...

CAF and RCN Prepare for RIMPAC 2016

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By: Frontline Defence News Four warships, several aircraft and more than 1,500 Canadian sailors, soldiers, airmen and airwomen will particip...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

RCAF Ex. MAPLE FLAG Set for May 30th

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DND Press Release: Cold Lake, Alberta – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces Exercise MAPLE FLAG, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s lar...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

RCAF Sends 4 Griffons, CC-130, and C-17 to Fort McMurray

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UPDATE: May 5, 2016 Four RCAF Griffon helicopters have been sent to Fort McMurray to provide support to the government of Alberta in the o...
Friday, April 8, 2016

RCAF releases report into 2012 Hercules accident in Florida

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DND Press Release April 8, 2016 – Ottawa – Department of National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces The Directorate of Flight Safety (DFS)...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Last RCAF CC-130E Lands at Aviation Museum in Ottawa

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. @avspacemuseum on #Periscope : Hercules arrival! https://t.co/1wZO5uh1Km — CWH Museum (@CWHM) April 5, 2016 Check out the Tweet Abo...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Lockheed Martin Admits it didn't enter CC-130J for FWSAR

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Four days ago David Pugliese published an article in The Ottawa Citizen  that said Lockheed Martin didn't bid on the RCAF's FWSAR p...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Canada-US NORAD Arctic Exercise

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The Canadian NORAD region will take the leading role in an exercise between Canadian and US Forces to test military personnel and aircraft i...