Aircraft
Civilian Hercules Gains Certification
FAA approval has paved the way for delivery of the first LM-100J to launch customer Pallas Aviation early next year.
The second-generation Hercules is represented at the Dubai show by a C-130J-30 from the U.S. Air Force’s 317th Airlift Wing, home-based at Dyess AFB, Texas.
The second-generation Hercules is represented at the Dubai show by a C-130J-30 from the U.S. Air Force’s 317th Airlift Wing, home-based at Dyess AFB, Texas.

On November 15, as Lockheed Martin executives were traveling to the Dubai Airshow, news came through that the company’s LM-100J—the commercial version of the C-130J—had been granted FAA certification. While the military C-130J had also received civilian approval in its early years, the certification had lapsed as new systems were increasingly brought into the aircraft, requiring a new test effort with the LM-100J version to update the type certificate.


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