First German KC-130J heads to Évreux

The Luftwaffe’s (German Air Force’s) first KC-130J Hercules (55+05) departed Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Marietta, Georgia, on February 28 on its delivery flight to Évreux-Fauville Air Base (BA105), France, where it will join the Franco-German Bilateral Air Transport Squadron (BATS). The unit – which will eventually employ a combined total of ten aircraft, comprising five C-130J-30 Super Hercules airlifters and five KC-130J tanker-transports – has already welcomed its first four aircraft in the form of the two C-130J-30s and