Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Saudi AF VC-130H HZ-116/486 currently out of East Midlands crossing Channel. Previous leg appears to have been Dover AFB - East Midlands yesterday, got some legs then, though may have stopped for fuel at Gander/Goose! Went the other way last Tuesday from Athens into EMA then Friday to Dover via Gander.
486 has been a regular C-130H for a number of years now. It was originally built as a VC-130H HZ-116 and has visited Heathrow and other UK airports as such since the 1980s [I saw it there in December 1983]
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1076451
but was converted to a normal C-130H transport a while [c2010] back and was at Fairford this year as 486
https://www.planespotters.net/photo/...hercules-l-382