Most AC-130A model Spectre builds I've seen are lacking key backdating features to make them correct, most notably the forward cargo door. Many modifications were done to these aircraft during their service with the USAF. Additional opening were added to the left side of the fuselage for gun placements. Holes were then cut into the door for cannons. When the aircraft was converted to a gunship configuration, the forward cargo door was closed and doubler-plates installed to prevent the door from opening ever again. There was a door on the left side forward fuselage and then the ramp and door oat the aft end of the aircraft. To build an AC-130A accurately, I would have to back date this kit to a C-130A. On a side not, aircraft 1630 is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
I found the Testors boxing of the AC-130A kits with the 54-1630 "Azreal - The Angel of Death" marking. Like all of Italeri's C-130 kits, they look good, but they have their shortcomings. This isn't going to be a Jon Vojtech AC-130 build, but it will be an in-flight build similar to my C-130H "Damien" build and WC-130J build. Now, keeping in line with my, building a model of every aircraft I've ever worked on, technically, if I close my left eye and squint my right, I can say that I worked on an AC-130A. The RT came in, I quickly op checked it and sent the aircraft on it's way. Ghost Rider is now on display at the Aviation Wing of the Marietta Museum of History. It was then flown to Dobbins AFB, Georgia to be put on static display. I will be modeling Ghost Rider as it appeared that day in 1993. I looked up at the fuselage and on the side was the trademark crescent moon and skull emblem and the name "Ghost Rider". So, I ordered the new RT and while we were waiting, I took a look at the aircraft and realized that this was a 1954 model AC-130A gunship. The crew told me that they had already troubleshot the system and determined that they needed a new RT.
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They Pro Super told me that they couldn't get a hold of the Comm/Nav person and since I was cross trained, it fell on me. One weekend in the early Fall of 1993, I was called out to the airbase to work on a transient Herk that dropped in for RADAR problems. The plan is to finish the Weatherbird and the Spectre at the same time. I have put the WC-130J in a holding pattern while I get started on this project.
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