Photographed at the Coast Guard Air Station. The aircraft was retired to the MASDC, (as it was then styled), "Boneyard" at Tucson in July 1982 and sent to National Aircraft salvage yard in June 1996.

Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco in 1963, with two old HH-19s and a new SC-130B on the ramp. The Hercules was orignally designated R8V-1G in USCG service, while the US Navy's KC-130F was designated GV-1 for a tanker! Photo by: Marshall Moxom / SFO Museum

This HC-130B was airlifting in divers and diving equipment for use in the search for missing crewmen from the USCGC White Alder. On the night of 7 December 1968 the White Alder collided with a freighter on the Mississippi River just south of Baton Rouge. All but three of the crew were lost. I took this slide late in the afternoon on 8 December 1968 while the a/c was being unloaded.

From St Petersburg, Fl