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The Lockheed WC-130 Hurricane Hunter is a high-wing medium-range aircraft used in weather reconnaissance missions. The aircraft is a modified version of the C-130 transport configured with palletized weather instrumentation for penetration of tropical disturbances and storms hurricanes and winter storms to obtain data on movement size and intensity. The WC-130 is the weather data collection platform for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron.