 Over those 70 years, 2,700 C-130s have been made right here in Marietta, Georgia. Rod McLean of Lockheed Martin's Marietta site says, The way that it is built to fly fast enough to refuel fighter jets and slow enough to refuel helicopters, to be able to land in 3,000-foot runways is what makes this aircraft so unique, which makes it so viable. And the fact that we're continuing to modernize and provide advancements in the aircraft