02/24/2026
Caught this Wyoming Air National Guard Lockheed C-130 Hercules (tail #21536, callsign “Teton 36”) lifting off from Cheyenne Airport. The Wyoming Air Guard is based right there, so there’s usually something interesting in the pattern. Whenever my wife heads into Cheyenne to shop, I’m often nearby in a parking lot plane-spotting and photographing aircraft — definitely my kind of waiting around. Fun fact: the C-130 production line has been running for 70 years, the longest of any military aircraft.