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Lockheed Martin commemorated the 1954 first flight of the YC-130 prototype in ceremonies at Marietta, Georgia, in August with a proclamation from the Georgia General Assembly honoring the Hercules. A special US Postal Service pictorial cancellation was also unveiled. Since that first flight, more than 2,260 Hercules aircraft of all types and in more than seventy different variants have been delivered to sixty countries. Sixty-seven countries, counting those that bought used aircraft, fly the Hercules today. The C-130J is the latest version to come off the longest, continuously active military aircraft production line in history.
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