Lockheed C-5 Galaxy

C-5B Galaxy

Wingspan: 223 feet

Length: 247 feet

Wing Area: 6,200 square feet

Maximum Weight: 837,000 pounds (Restricted to 769,000 pounds in peacetime)

Maximum Payload: 73 troops, 2 payload masters, and 291,000 pounds cargo

Range: 3,400 miles

Powerplant: 4x 43,000 pound st TF39-GE-1C turbofans

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The sixth C-5A, 67-0167 makes a pass over the Edwards Air Force Base Open House Display on May 19, 1970. Galaxies were originally painted white over gull gray (FS 16473) with a blue cheat line. The nose radome was black. Photographer Richard Lockett.

Demonstration of refueling C-5A Galaxy 67-0167 by a Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker at the Edwards Air Force Base Open House Display on May 16, 1973. A Lockheed T-33 flies off the wing of the Galaxy to provide scale. C-5A Galaxy 67-0167 was retired to AMARC on January 6, 2005 as CM0010. It was scrapped at AMARC in Septamber 2012 by New Phoenix Metals.

C-5A 66-8306 at Edwards AFB on September 20, 1981. It was retired to AMARC on Feb 18, 2004 as CM0003. It was transferred to Lackland AFB Apr 14, 2011 for instructional use. Parts of this plane are now being used as a cargo load trainer at Lackland AFB, TX.

C-5A 68-0219 on static display at the Edwards Air Force Base Open House Display on October 23, 1982. The nose visor is up to provide access to the cargo hold. The rear cargo loading doors are also open. The landing gear have been retracted to bring the cargo floor to the same height as a standard truck bed.

C-5A 69-001 on static display at the Vandenberg Air Force Base Airshow on November 14, 1984. In the middle of the eighties, the Galaxy fleet was repainted in European-1 camouflage. The upper surfaces were painted with gray (FS 36118) and two shades of green (FS 34102 and FS 34092). As the camouflaged Galaxies entered the fleet, green nose radomes found their way onto some of the "white top" Galaxies.

The third C-5A, 66-8305 on static display at the Edwards Air Force Base Open House Display on November 9, 1986. The upper surfaces of the wing of this white top Galaxy have acquired the gray/green European-1 camouflage. The entire fleet of C-5A Galaxies had their wing boxes replaced when it as discovered that the original design had a much shorter life than had been predicted. The new wing boxes were painted with the European-1 camouflage in anticipation of the repainting of the rest of the airplanes.

C-5A 69-0012 at Moffett Naval Air Station on July 2, 1988.

C-5B at Edwards Air Force Base on October 23, 1988.

C-5A lands at Frankfurt Airport in Germany on June 29, 1989.

C-5B 85-004 on static display at the Miramar Naval Air Station Airshow on August 12, 1989. The landing gear are in the fully extended position used for take-off and landing.

C-5 at Beale AFB on October 14, 1989.

C-5B 86-0016 on static display at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Airshow on November 12, 1989.

C-5B 86-0026 at Davis-Monthan AFB on March 17, 1990.

C-5A 69-0026 at Travis AFB on September 13, 1991.

C-5B 85-0004 at Travis AFB on September 13, 1991.

C-5B 85-0004 at Travis AFB on September 13, 1991. The main landing gear bogies rotate ninety degrees around the vertical axis before they retract into the fuselage.

C-5B 87-0032 from Travis AFB makes a pass over the Nellis Air Force Base Golden Air Tattoo on April 25, 1997. C-5 Galaxies are now painted in uniform gray (FS 36173).

C-5B 87-0032 at Nellis AFB on April 26, 1997.

C-5 on approach to McClellan Air Force Base on August 7, 1998. Note the large area of the extended flaps.

C-5B 87-0038 takes off from Travis Air Force Base on August 8, 1998.

C-5B 86-0024 at Travis AFB on August 8, 1998.

C-5B 87-0038 at Travis AFB on August 8, 1998.

C-5B 85-0003, Chevrons of Dover at Palm Springs Airport on December 30, 2006.

Lockheed C-5M Galaxy 86-0025 of the 436th Airlift Wing based at Dover Air Force Base on flight test duty at Edwards Air Force Base on September 26, 2007. It is the second Galaxy to be modernized with General Electric CF6-80C2 engines and a glass cockpit. It made its first flight after modification on November 17, 2006.

Lockheed C-5M Galaxy 86-0025 of the 436th Airlift Wing based at Dover Air Force Base at Edwards Air Force Base on September 26, 2007. The C-5M can be distinguished from earlier models of the Galaxy by the shape of the engine nacelles.

Lockheed C-5M Galaxy 86-0025 of the 436th Airlift Wing based at Dover Air Force Base at Edwards Air Force Base on September 26, 2007.

Lockheed C-5M Galaxy 86-0025 of the 436th Airlift Wing based at Dover Air Force Base at Edwards Air Force Base on September 26, 2007. It carries a large, orange air-data boom on its nose.

Lockheed C-5M Galaxy 86-0025 of the 436th Airlift Wing based at Dover Air Force Base at Edwards Air Force Base on September 26, 2007.

Lockheed C-5A Galaxy 69-0003 of the 455th Airlift Wing based at Wright-Pattterson Air Force Base, Ohio at Davis-MOnthan Air Force Base on April 15, 2012.

Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy 87-0028 of the 60th Air Materiel Wing and the 349th Air Materiel Wing

Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy 87-0028 of the 60th Air Materiel Wing and the 349th Air Materiel Wing based at Travis Air Force Base, California

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C-5A 66-8306, Edwards AFB, September 20, 1981
C-5, Beale AFB, October 14, 1989
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C-5A 69-0026, Travis AFB, September 13, 1991
C-5B 85-0004, Travis AFB, September 13, 1991
C-5B 87-0032, Nellis AFB, April 25, 1997
C-5B 87-0032, Nellis AFB, April 26, 1997
C-5, McClellan AFB, August 7, 1998
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NASA Boeing 747-123 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft N905NA/Endeavour, Edwards Air Force Base, December 10, 2008,
Lockheed C-5B Galaxy 87-0032, Nellis Air Force Base, April 25, 1997,
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Giant Jet Airplanes
	First Flight	Wing Span	Length	Wing Area (ft²)	Gross Weight (lbs)	Engines
Boeing 777-9	2018	235ft 5in	251ft 9in	5,025	775,000	2 × 105,000 lb General Electric GE9X-105B1A
Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch	2018	385ft	238ft	?	1,300,000	6 × 56,750 lb Pratt & Whitney PW4056
Boeing 747-8 Jumbo Jet	2010	224ft,07in	250ft,02in	5,960	975,000	4 x 66,500 GEnx-2B67
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner	2009	197ft, 03in	206ft	3,501	545,000	2 x 71,000 lb General Electric GEnx or Rolls-Royce Trent 1000
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner	2009	197ft, 03in	186ft	3,501	502,500	2 x 64,000 lb General Electric GEnx or Rolls-Royce Trent 1000
Airbus A380	2005	261ft,10in	239ft,06in	9,100	1,235,000	4 x 84,000 lb RR Trent 900 or Engine Alliance GP-7200
Boeing 777-300ER	2003	212ft,07in	242ft,04in	4,700	775,000	2 x 115,300 lb GE90-115B
Airbus A340-600	2001	208ft,02in	247ft,01in	4,729	811,300	4 x 56,000 lb RR Trent 556
Boeing 777-200	1994	209ft,01in	199ft,11in	4,605	545,000	2 x 74,000 lb PW4074, GE90-75B, or RR Trent 875
Airbus A330-300	1992	197ft,10in	208ft,10in	3,892	507,000	2 x 51,590 lb GE CF6-80E, PW4000, or RR Trent 700
Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet	1988	211ft,05in	231ft,10in	5,650	833,000	4 x 45,000 PW4062 or GE CF6-80C2B1F
Antonov An-225 Mryia	1988	290ft,00in	275ft,07in	10,280	1,300,000	6 x 51,590 lb DT-18T
Antonov An-124 Ruslan	1984	240ft,00in	227ft,00in	6,760	890,000	4 x 51,590 lb DT-18T
Tupolev 160 Blackjack	1981	182ft, 09in	177ft, 06in	3,660	606,000	4 x 50,900 lb NK-321
Lockheed C-5A Galaxy	1968	222ft,08in	247ft,10in	6,200	769,000	4 x 50,000 lb GE TF-39
Boeing 747-100 Jumbo Jet	1968	195ft,08in	231ft,04in	5,500	850,000	4 x 50,000 lb P&W JT9D
Antonov An-22 Antheus	1965	211ft,04in	189ft,07in	3,713	550,000	4 x 15,000 shp Kuznetsov NK-12MV
North American XB-70A Valkyrie	1964	105ft,00in	189ft,00in	6,297	530,000	6 x 33,000,lb J-93
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress	1952	185ft,00in	157ft,07in	4,000	450,000	8 x 8,000 lb J-57
Convair YB-60	1952	206ft,05in	175ft,02in	5,239	410,000	8 x 8,000 lb J-57

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Beyond the Horizon : The Lockheed Story by Walter J. Boyne

Lockheed Aircraft Cutaways : The History of Lockheed Martin by Mike Badrocke, Bill Gunston

Lockheed C-5 : Case Study in Aircraft Design; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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