{"id":352455,"date":"2026-01-21T00:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-c-130-hercules-built\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:12:26","slug":"how-many-c-130-hercules-aircraft-were-built-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=352455","title":{"rendered":"How Many C-130 Hercules Aircraft Were Built?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255371\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-130\/\"  >C-130<\/a><\/span> Hercules has been &#8220;the&#8221; tactical transport aircraft of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> and many of its allies and partners for decades. Today, it is found in service with everything from the US Coast Guard to the Royal New Zealand Air Force, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028729\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/royal-new-zealand-air-force-flies-c-130h-hercules-for-rare-mid-winter-medical-evacuation-in-antarctica\/\" >medevacing patients from Antarctica<\/a><\/span>. The military airlifter fills the niche for tactical military transport that is smaller than strategic transports like the C-5M Super Galaxy, the C-17 Globemaster III, and the Airbus A400M Atlas but larger than helicopters or small tactical aircraft like the Airbus C295\/CASA C-295.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2,700 C-130-family aircraft have so far been produced, with production expected to run into the 2030s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6067,5628,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-130","category-hercules","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352456,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352455\/revisions\/352456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}