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1/200 Gemini200 (G2AFO569) Lockheed C130J Super Hercules (48152) "Channel Islands" 146 AW California Air Guard U.S.A.F. (Limited Edition) 2016 Release
1/200 Gemini200 (G2AFO569) Lockheed C130J Super Hercules (48152) "Channel Islands" 146 AW California Air Guard U.S.A.F. (Limited Edition) 2016 Release
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1/200 Gemini200 (G2AFO569) Lockheed C130J Super Hercules ( 48152) "Channel Islands" 146 AW California Air Guard U.S.A.F. (Limited Edition) 2016 Release
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The 146th Airlift Wing, located in Channel Islands, California, is a combat ready organization prepared to support U.S. and allied forces in the event of a national military contingency. As a unit in the California National Guard, the wing may also be called upon to provide disaster response, humanitarian relief, and large scale aerial firefighting capabilities to the state and the nation.
146th Airlift Wing
146th Air Wing insignia
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| Active | 1943 – present |
| Country |
 United States
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| Allegiance |
 California
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| Branch |
 Air National Guard
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| Type | Wing |
| Role | Tactical Airlift, Fire Suppression, Med-Evac |
| Part of | California Air National Guard |
| Garrison/HQ | Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Oxnard, California. |
| Nickname | Hollywood Guard[1] |
| Tail Code | Green Stripe "Channel Islands" |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
Colonel Christopher F. Dougherty |
The 146th Airlift Wing (146 AW) is a unit of the California Air National Guard, stationed at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Oxnard, California. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command.
Mission
The 146th AW's primary mission is to provide global military airlift capability to a full spectrum of state and federal agencies. Flying the Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, the 146th has provided humanitarian relief in the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and other disasters, in California, the United States and internationally.
The 146th is one of four C-130 ANG units whose contribution to the United States' aerial firefighting capability includes equipment and techniques for efficient, effective suppression of large wildland fires from the air. Since 1974, using the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) units supplied by the US Forest Service and mounted in four C-130s, the wing's aerial firefighting crews have been credited with saving many lives and millions of dollars' worth of structures, forests, and brushland in California and other states and countries.
MAFFS II was used for the first time on a fire in July 2010,[2] using the latest generation Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aircraft.[3] The 146th Airlift Wing was the first to transition to the MAFFS 2 system in 2008, and it remains the only unit flying the new system on the C-130J aircraft.[3]
