> Well, the C-130 has been pretty much everywhere pretty much forever -- not sure if anyone in the military in the last 5 decades or so has not been in and/or n

> Well, the C-130 has been pretty much everywhere pretty much forever -- not sure if anyone in the military in the last 5 decades or so has not been in and/or near them at some point? Very true. I had the impression that the Mi-26 was considerably more niche, and that there wouldn't be a ton of overlap between operators of the C-130 and the Mi-26. However, I just checked the list of operators on wikipedia (not sure how accurate that is) and Algeria, Jordan, India, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela all field both. There also seems to be civilian operators of the Mi-26.