USA - Air Force Lockheed AC-130 Spectre 54-1626
Image ID: 1354515
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Operator: USA - Air Force - 54-1626
Aircraft: Lockheed - AC-130 Spectre
Airport: USA - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (FFO / KFFO)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2016-6-22 by Arjun Sarup [Contact]
Camera setting: NIKON D800, 1/400s, f/9.0 at 48mm ISO 320
Photographer's remark
(15.11.2020, 11:38 CET)
Prototype Spectre gunship that was converted under Project Gunship II at Wright-Patterson AFB. It carried four 20mm cannon and four 7.62mm multi-barrel guns, used in a 30-degree left bank at night. This AC-130 was sent to Nha Trang AFB in Vietnam on Sept. 21, 1967 for a 90-day test. Other Spectres of 16th SOS based at Ubon flew interdiction missions along the Ho Chi Ming Trail from 1968 onward, destroying many trucks. This aircraft carries the emblem of Air Force Systems Command on the left side.
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