Private C-130 down KSBA

Owned by International Air Response. Had just returned from Singapore and had landed and taken off from Santa Maria.


https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29573/c-130-crash-lands-at-santa-barbara-airport

The aircraft in question appears to belong to International Air Response, an operator of C-130s that are used for various unique applications, such as test and evaluation, film making, and oil spill cleanup spraying missions, as well as cargo hauling duties. ​

Dug up ATC audio of the Santa Barbara C-130 incident. Per controller, C-130 was down to 3 engines and had hydraulic failure. Pilot said he had no flaps and made some s-turns to lose altitude on approach. Approach starts around 19:10-
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http://archive-server.liveatc.net/ksba/KSBA-Twr-Aug-26-2019-0500Z.mp3

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Peter edwards said:
Imagine the ramp fees !!
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Admittedly, I'd dare say you'd be the *coolest* F****R at the ramp at Signature if you rolled up in a C-130. All the Gulfstream guys can pound sand as you roll in with FOUR 13.5 ft diameter 4,500 hp turboprops

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kyleb said:
Probably waived with a 5,000 gallon fuel purchase.
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I wouldn't put it past an FBO though to still add on a miscellaneous "handling and ramp fee"


**Pardon the thread derail.. but what would it take to legally single pilot a C-130? Assume you had Bezos / Musk / Russian Oligarch money. Could you simply register it as an experimental, like Boeing does with the Dreamlifter (such a cringeworthy name).. or is it basically impossible?
 
Tantalum said:
I wouldn't put it past an FBO though to still add on a miscellaneous "handling and ramp fee"


**Pardon the thread derail.. but what would it take to legally single pilot a C-130? Assume you had Bezos / Musk / Russian Oligarch money. Could you simply register it as an experimental, like Boeing does with the Dreamlifter (such a cringeworthy name).. or is it basically impossible?
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They’re looking into it. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/uni...ine-pilots-protest-study-whether-cargo-planes
 
C-130 can't be operated single pilot you have to have two pilots and older models require an engineer too.

Way back in the day our flight instructors in the Beech 1900 had type rating for single pilot operations. You can do some research with the FAA to confirm but I am fairly sure the 1900 is the heaviest airplane with a single pilot type rating. There are some Citation models that allow for single pilot operations but not sure what is their max to weight. 1900D was 16,500 lbs or there about later bumped up to a hair above 17,000...what a pocket rocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
jonvcaples said:
C-130 can't be operated single pilot you have to have two pilots and older models require an engineer too.

Way back in the day our flight instructors in the Beech 1900 had type rating for single pilot operations. You can do some research with the FAA to confirm but I am fairly sure the 1900 is the heaviest airplane with a single pilot type rating. There are some Citation models that allow for single pilot operations but not sure what is their max to weight. 1900D was 16,500 lbs or there about later bumped up to a hair above 17,000...what a pocket rocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, when I was looking into a plane to haul friends and family, those came up. You can get them fairly cheaply, but they have tens of thousands of hours and tens of thousands of kids puking in them.
Plus I can't afford to run it.
 
I can't find any reference right now, but I remember reading somewhere that Howard Hughes would fly his DC-6 single pilot. He only flew it for a year or so, then parked it. Many years later it was sold to a cargo company in Alaska where I got to sit in the pilots seat, the same seat Howard used to sit in.
 
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