C-130 Touch-n-gos in Stillwater

[K5MAR]

Kinda late on this, but there was an ANG C-130, callsign Sooner 41, doing touch and gos at the Stillwater Airport Monday afternoon. Anybody know where these are based? I'm thinking Tulsa, but don't know for sure.

Mark S.
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[N5TWB]

To the best of my knowledge, all C-130s in the Oklahoma Air Guard are based out of Will Rogers in OKC. Tulsa's Air Guard planes are fighters, IIRC.

They were probably checking out the extended runway at SWO that just opened recently.

 

[crayon]

To the best of my knowledge, all C-130s in the Oklahoma Air Guard are based out of Will Rogers in OKC.

correct.

Rumor has it that one of the Sooners skills is in landing without any ground based aids. If your up at night when they come back to roost, you can usually hear them call for the runway lights to be turned off as they make an approach.

Rumor also has it that some of the first C-130s to land in Bagdad were crewed by Sooners for this reason.

It would seem to me that this type of skill would be needed by any C-130 aircrew .. but that is how it was told to me.

 

[K5MAR]

To the best of my knowledge, all C-130s in the Oklahoma Air Guard are based out of Will Rogers in OKC. Tulsa's Air Guard planes are fighters, IIRC.

They were probably checking out the extended runway at SWO that just opened recently.

OK, thanks for the info. Went out to the airport and watched a few, they weren't even using most of the old section of the runway. Not true short field landings/takeoffs, but they weren't using much more, 1,000 feet or so.

We're supposed to start getting some of the trainers from Vance stopping in, now that the extension is completed, looking forward to that. Friend of mine claims he saw a B-52 make a l-o-w pass a couple of years ago, that I'd like to have seen!

Mark S.

 

[WX5JCH]

You guys should come out to Clinton-Sherman some day, it's like a air show everyday. We get C-5A's, C-17s, from Altus, B-52s, B-1bs from Abilene, and lot's of T-37/8's all over. Best place to view is S. of the control tower 15,000 ft + runway...

119.6 is the tower freq.


Jim

 

[TeRayCodA]

Back in '88,the US Army did about a 3 month long JRT(Joint Readiness Training) here at Davis Field.
There was almost non-stop landing,take-offs of C-141's,C-5A,C-130 almost around the clock!(I wish I had a scanner back then that had mil-air UHF!)

We used to live in the approach of the runway,and, at night,the landing lights of the incoming would almost illuminate the living room!I can also recall many times seeing the rear cargo door open on the C-130's,and seeing the loadmasters standing by the door.-they were that low!It was like a summer long airshow!

Used to go park at the airfield just to watch them unload,and take off on the gigantic C-5's.
The Tulsa ANG would do strafing runs at the airfield in the old A-7's.

I really miss it!