On Sunday, April 2, members of the Talon community gathered at Hurlburt Field to see MC-130H, Tail Number 89-0280, take off for the last time. [Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] The U.S. Air Force’s special ...

Inside the audacious plan to convert a C-130 Hercules into a rocket-assisted Super STOL aircraft capable of landing in a ...

HURLBURT FIELD — For Lt. Col. Shane Muscato, it was fitting that rain began to fall during Tuesday morning's preparations for the final flight of the MC-130H "Combat Talon II" carrying tail number ...

A U.S. Air Force Special Operations Forces MC-130H Combat Talon II crashed on Aug. 8 a few miles south of San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing all 10 crew and passengers. It is the eighth aircraft that Air ...

Boeing will convert 10 Lockheed C-130 transports to MC-130H Combat Talon II configuration under a $134-million, first-phase contract from the U.S. Air Force. Plans call for two airplanes to be ...

A former Southington resident who dedicated his life to the U.S. Air Force was one of nine service members killed in a plane crash in Albania last week. Tech Sgt. Glenn P. Lastes, 39, was in an ...

The Air Force transport plane that crashed Wednesday shortly after takeoff in eastern Afghanistan, killing three of the 10 people aboard, was on a routine resupply mission and did not encounter enemy ...

Air Force officials are hashing out which missions to award bases around the country that retire their 1960s-era C-130H Hercules planes — potentially requiring a completely different skill set than a ...

August 23, 2011: This month, U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command) is receiving the first of 85 MC-130J transports. This is part of a U.S. Air Force purchase of over a hundred of the new models, to ...

Air Commandos with the 15th Special Operations Squadron and Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment conducted a five-day bilateral training in Kentucky and Tennessee, ...