Delivered to the USAF as C-130B 58-0712 in 1959. Converted to a C-130C then to NC-130B. Assigned to NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Moffett Field from 1961. Used for boundary layer control, STOL and V/STOL research. Used boundary-layer control over the flaps, drooped ailerons, elevator, and rudder to augment lift. Registered as N929NA in 1969 then N707NA in 1973. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB in 2000. In ARM scrapyard nearby in 2021.

First flight as C-130B in '58 as USAF 58-0712. Converted to C-130C. Moved to Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center with inventory code CF0001 on 1 Jans'68, but went in that same year to NASA Johnson as 929, modified to NC-130B. Registered as N929NA in Sep'69 and was used for the NASA Earth Survey 2 mission up to '79. Became NASA 707 and was transferred to Dryden Flight Research Center, but based at NASA Ames at NAS Moffett Field (CA). Became N707NA in Feb'82. By 2000, it was moved to Boulder and withdrawn from use at Jeffco City (CO). To AMARG on 4 Nov'00, N707NA canx on 20 Feb'13.

This was the second C-130B. It was at first a JC-130B, equpped with trailing hooks to 'snag' the parachutes of film cannisters dropped from space by satellites. It was later used by the 6514th Test Squadron here at Hill AFB to support various test programmes at the Utah Test and Training Range. It has JATO bottle mount points.

Former NASA Ames Research Center aircraft in the Aircraft Restoration and Marketing yard.