The Royal Netherlands Air Force took delivery of its first of two modernised ex-US Navy Lockheed Martin C-130H tactical transports at Eindhoven air base on 2 March.
Returned to service by Marshall Aerospace of the UK and now equipped with a glass cockpit, aircraft G-988 will undergo operational test and evaluation for the next three months, before being declared fully operational.
Handed over after a lengthy programme delay, the Hercules will soon be followed by aircraft G-781.
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The pair will expand the air force's current air transport fleet, which includes two stretched-fuselage C-130H-30s, in use since 1994. These are also to be converted to the new configuration.