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Description
| Notes: C-5A with upgraded landing gear and more durable corrosion resistant alloy skin on fuselage and wings. Cargo bay modified to carry solid rocket boosters of space shuttle system. | ||
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed | |
| Base model: | C-5 | |
| Designation: | C-5 | |
| Version: | C | |
| Nickname: | GALAXY | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Tri-Service | |
| Designation Period: | 1962-Present | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
Specifications
Propulsion
Performance
Recent comments by our visitors
| Jeremy Harp , TX | I am the DCC of 68-0223 (pig pen) I met the original DCC that named it "Pig Pen". I need pics of this aircraft in the dirt and mud caked in the wheel wells. I am tryin to put together a nice project to put on the relief crew table. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Red 09/27/2011 @ 11:30 [ref: 49270] |
| 8216 , CA | Well I thought I would share a tidbit of how shes doing, I am working hard on cleaning her up and getting her to be the Pride of Travis, I think I scrubbed 10 years of dirt off her walls in the flight deck, I plan to replace most of the worn out tables and hope to refab all the chairs. I'm also trying to find a way to get new or rehabbed insulation, my goal is get this looking amazing for the airshows and flying like a dream. Look for it at airshows and tell me what you think. 08/16/2011 @ 08:05 [ref: 46081] |
| Marlin , WA | 68-0216 landed nose gear up and went to depot, there they modified it to a SCM aircraft. 68-0213 had a hydraulic fire in the troop compartment during maintenance, went to depot and was modified to a SCM aircraft. I was a DCC on 68-0213 from 1993-1995. They didn't change the designation to C-5C until the late 1990's, early 2000's. 07/27/2011 @ 18:37 [ref: 43461] |
| Joe Hively Longview, TX | I was station at Altus AFB 443rdOMS when we received are first c5a on 19 Dec. 1969. The tail number was 0170. I went to Lockeed factory school Oct.-Dec. 1968. Was sent to Edwards AFB twice for Testing. I was one of first crew chiefs on the c5a and it was 0170. 0170 was the first c5a for the Air Force. Altus was a training base for the pilots, and flight enginers. The c5a was a work horse but we had to work hard to keep her flying, she wasn't nothen like the c141s. I was crew chief on 0151 c141 and 0170 on the c5 and now thay are gone Joe Hively 11/30/2010 @ 10:01 [ref: 33695] |
| \"DJ\" Johnson Buffalo, NY | I was a Crew Chief on 68-0213 from 81-83 when she was stll an "A-model". Her nickname was the "Duck Hunter", she flamed out 2 engines during flight evaluation trials. 68-0223 was nicknamed "Pig Pen" after the popular peanuts character, she was the test vehicle for austere field operations testing during flight test. The planes were white caps, battleship grey lower fuselage with white upper fuselage, wings, tail. 69-0013 was nickname the "Millenium Falcon" a favorite of its Crew Chief Guy "Han Solo" Hokansen. 06/26/2010 @ 08:17 [ref: 26730] |
| Steve , CA | I was surfing old memories of my C5 days and I found my picture from a different side and angle then the picture that was in Aviation Week loading the C5. 01/30/2010 @ 06:38 [ref: 25653] |
| George Stacey, CMSGT RET Washington Court House, OH | I was the test loadmaster assigned to the SCM project at the factory. I worked the project from design all the way through the test flight/test loadings and was on the flight that delivered the Hubble Space telescope. I have some great memories of these aircraft. I was also the test loadmaster for the C5-B program. I along with CMSGT Ray Snedegar, CMSGT Dave Fincher and CMSGT Mark Smith (C5 Mark Smith) wrote and tested the procedures for the loading of the SCTS. We spend many long days and nights at Vandenberg, Stockton, Sunnyvale, and Marietta during building and flight test days. We brought the Kelly loadmasters, CMSGT Tilton, SMSGT Scandalito, SSGT Bob Greene and many others into the program early on. Have been retired since 1995 and working for ABX Air in Ohio ever since. I am retireing again the end of December, this time for good. 43 years in this businessis enough. 12/01/2009 @ 05:35 [ref: 25363] |
| Doug , TX | I was one of eighteen original on 216 and 213. Back in the Late 1980 early 1990 the aircraft were referred as SCM aircraft. It was not until Travis got the Aircraft the C-5C changed. I also was one of four Crew Chiefs to take these aircraft through Desert Storm during 1991. When at the 433rd AW the aircraft made all missions NASA asked of the 443rd AW. I worked both 216 and 213 aircraft from the time we received from Lockheed to the time Travis AFB took them over. As far as the back doors not too many person know how to operate those door correctly. After the person that did not know what they were doing, they got hang up, and yes I would have to go out and get those door back in line. 08/22/2008 @ 05:53 [ref: 22523] |
| w lynch oklahoma city, OK | Greetings
Any one like to get to get together to see how the scum birds are doing. 11/08/2007 @ 15:59 [ref: 18462] |
| Paladin , MO | I was assigned to 213 from 81-86 and was her DCC. Flew nearly 2000 hours in three years with the 60th OMS in support of the 4 flying Squadrons. All planes are different and have funny ways. You used to have to stomp on the threshold to get the crew entranceway to come up. She was selected to be a C due to structural cracks that limited her to double and triple period locals (not because she was bellied in!) and was due for major overhaul. Still miss the plane and the people, I have run into a few once and awhile. Be Well. Bogus 08/11/2006 @ 09:41 [ref: 13857] |
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