The three-aircraft Hercules fleet of the Dutch airforce basically consists of civilian aircraft. To be more precise, they are Lockheed’’s slightly extended civilian version L-100-30, also called L-382. The Koninkliijke Luchtmacht now calls it the C-130-30 and indeed, it showed its mettle in its Balkan War assignment in the 90s. The original of this model is listed as G-273 in the Dutch and NATO military registers and is based in Eindhoven.
