...And what leads you to think I worked for fly by nights? I am perfectly aware of what Safair operates, the point being that C130 is a generic designator for purposes of filing flight plans and is pretty much in general use, despite people who make a habit of picking the fly**** out of the pepper.
As for spending the dollars, well if they hadn't sold them to TA in the first place, they may have remained in good nick. The California crash was an earlier model as I recall, and lacked the stronger wing of the later ships.
Also, the L100-20/30 designation was a reference to the type of roller floor, mistakenly used by a clerk to denote the aircraft model IIRC. Could be an urban/aviation myth as I've heard little to back it up.