This aircraft was circling very low during the day, wondering if anyone could identify this plane.
this was spotted flying over the san francisco bay area.
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Sign up to join this communityThis aircraft was circling very low during the day, wondering if anyone could identify this plane.
this was spotted flying over the san francisco bay area.
Going by probability it's likely a KC-130 as there are quite a few of those in the world. The recognition feature would be that it has four teardrop pieces of underwing gear with the external fuel tanks inboard and the drogue refuelling systems on the outboard. There are no other obvious lumps or bumps in the picture to indicate other mission equipment such as cameras or weapons systems to narrow down which particular variant it could be.
Looks like It's Lockheed C130 Hercules, but don't know which variant it is.
It's it's either KC-130E/H, MC-130P, HC-130P/N, all of which are In-flight Refueling capable as this C130 is due to the outboard Refueling pods on either wing, the items inboard of those are the external fuel tanks (which every variant has) both are hard mounted and fixed and can't be air dropped as some like to think. Without a more detailed photo along with a more of side profile exact model and variant can't be known. Try looking up which branch either Navy/Marines, Coast Guard (since paint scheme can't be identified either), or Air Force operates C-130s and you should get an answer. It's more then likely one of the first 2 branches mentioned more probably the first one given the location you stated and will wind up being a KC-130 operates by either Navy or the Marine Corps