Every entry in the Defense records system exists because some decision needed a documented basis, and DD Form 2130-2 is one of those instruments: C-130 E/H/J Load Plan, created to C-130 E/H/J Load Plan. The reason it carries a DD number rather than a service designation is structural — the Department maintains a single body of forms for matters that arise identically in every service, so that a record created in one component remains intelligible in another.
The practical effect of Department-level issue is interoperability. not stated establishes the requirement across the Defense enterprise; not stated keeps the document current for all of it. No service maintains its own variant, which means a completed record travels between components — service to agency, agency to joint command — and arrives in a format the receiving office already knows how to read.
The edition in force is not stated, carried by the publisher as not stated, and edition discipline is stricter on a Department form than most people expect, precisely because supersession happens everywhere at once. There is no interval during which one service still works from the previous layout while another has moved on.
Work down the page in the printed order, and understand why the order exists. The identifying block establishes whose record this is and under what circumstances it arises. The body of the form then answers questions that are only meaningful once that context is fixed. The signature block comes last because a certification signed before the entries are complete certifies nothing.
Before the first entry, compare the date printed on the form face with not stated. This is not bureaucratic fussiness. Editions change field numbering, and a receiving office working from the current layout may look for information where your copy does not put it. On a Department form the exposure is wider than usual: your record may be reviewed by an office in another service entirely, one with no reason to remember what the previous edition looked like.
Unclear entries are resolved from the printed instructions first and from not stated where the two texts diverge.
Download the form
Formats available: PDF, across 2 pages and about 200 fields. That several formats coexist is a consequence of scale — the Department cannot standardize the software on every desk that needs this form, so it standardizes the document instead.
Fillable and printable are not two presentations of one file but two different objects. One holds your entries as structured data within the document; the other is a static picture meant to meet a pen. Since a DD form frequently moves outside the organization that created it, the durability of the entry matters more here than on a record that stays in one drawer. Typed text reproduces indefinitely; handwriting degrades at every copy.
What the form asks for
- 1. UNIT BEING AIRLIFTED (Name or Number)
- 2. UNIT IDENTIFICATION CODE
- 3. TYPE MOVEMENT PLAN
- 4. MOVEMENT DATE
- 5. UNIT AIRCRAFT LOAD NO.
- 6. MISSION NUMBER
- 7. AIRCRAFT SERIAL NUMBER
- 8. CONFIGURATION
- 9. DEPARTURE AIRFIELD
- 10. DESTINATION AIRLIFTED
- a. LOAD SEQUENCE_Row_1
- b. ITEM MODEL AND NOMENCLATURE/DESCRIPTION_Row_1
- c. TRANSPORTATION CONTROL NO. VEHICLE PACKAGES/SERIAL NO. INCREMENT NO._Row_1
- REMARKS CODE (From col. h.)_Row_1
- OTHER REMARKS_Row_1
- LENGTH_Row_1
- WIDTH_Row_1
- HEIGHT_Row_1
- GROSS WEIGHT (Total pounds)_Row_1
- FUSELAGE STATION_Row_1
- MOMENT (1,000)_Row_1
- GROSS WEIGHT (Total pounds)_Row_1
- FUSELAGE STATION_Row_1
- MOMENT (1,000)_Row_1
Submission follows not stated and whatever local instruction supplements it. Make a copy before the original leaves. Department forms travel across organizational lines by design, and the administrative distance that makes them useful is the same distance that makes tracing a lost one difficult.
Cross-referenced documents are found by series and number, with nothing further required. That the DD sequence is unified across the Department means a cited number identifies one form and no other, which is the practical payoff of centralizing the numbering in the first place.
It helps to see the DA and DD sequences as what they are: separate registries with separate custodians. One serves a single service under a service proponent, the other serves the Department under not stated or an equivalent office, and neither was ever indexed against the other. A number that appears in both systems points to two unrelated documents, which is why reading the prefix comes before reading the digits.
Editions change for reasons that originate above the form itself. The prescribing directive is reissued and the form follows; the information the Department needs to collect changes and the fields change with it; the statutory notice language is amended and every form carrying that notice is republished. None of these events announces itself to the person who downloaded a copy last year, which is why confirming not stated at the moment of download is the only reliable check available to you.
A word on what this page is. It distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes what the document contains and how it is completed. It is not the issuing authority, does not speak for one, and offers no legal advice; nothing written here determines whether a particular submission will be accepted, because that determination belongs entirely to the office receiving it. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure go to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2130-2?
- C-130 E/H/J Load Plan
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?