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C-5 Galaxy
Top view of four-engine jet transport in-flight above mountain range.
A United States Air Force C-5 in-flight
Role Strategic airlifter
National origin United States
Manufacturer Lockheed
First flight 30 June 1968
Introduction June 1970
Status Operational
Active: 36
Reserve: 37
ANG: 21
Primary user United States Air Force
Produced C-5A: 1968–1973
C-5B: 1985–1989
C-5M upgrades: 2006–present
Number built 131 (C-5A: 81, C-5B: 50)
Unit cost C-5B: US$168 million (1987)

The C-5 Galaxy is a very big military cargo aircraft made by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) used by the United States Air Force. It first flew in 1968 and was introduced in 1970. It is one of the biggest transports in the world. It is 247 feet (75 meters) long, 65 feet (19 meters) high, has a wingspan of 222 feet (67 meters), and can weigh up to 840,000 pounds (378,000 kilograms).

It is used to fly military equipment on to battlefields, and because of its size, it can even carry tanks and helicopters. Five C-5s have crashed.

Images for kids

  • C-5 Galaxy

    The fourth C-5A Galaxy 66-8306 in the 1980s European One color scheme

  • C-5 Galaxy - 081217-F-5350S-101

    A Galaxy undergoing the AMP and RERP upgrades, to become a C-5M

  • Lockheed C-5 Galaxy loading 135

    Lockheed C-5 Galaxy loading on a wet ramp in Bush Field, Georgia

  • Excavators in a C5

    JCB HMEE backhoe loader stowed inside a C-5. The C-5 loadmasters ensure cargo is secured and balanced before takeoff.

  • M1 Abrams loaded on a C-5 Galaxy

    Loading an M1A1 Abrams tank onto a C-5 Galaxy

  • USAF MMIII C5 airdrop(Oct 1974)

    C-5A Minuteman Air Mobile ICBM Feasibility Demonstration – 24 October 1974

  • Galaxy Antarctica

    Personnel unload cargo from a C-5 Galaxy at Pegasus Field, an ice runway near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in 1989

  • C-5 Galaxy - 060505-F-0000J-002

    A C-5 taking off from Robins AFB

  • C-5A Cockpit

    Instrument panel of a C-5A

  • C-5M Cockpit

    New C-5 cockpit avionics, installed under the Avionics Modernization Program

  • C5 galaxy

    People in line to enter the 445th Airlift Wing's first C-5A Galaxy in 2005

  • Lockheed C-5B Galaxy (L-500), USA - Air Force AN0568811

    C-5B Galaxy at Rhein-Main AB

  • C-5B Arrival At CYQB

    A C-5 landing a Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport (CYQB)

  • KC-46 Refuels C-5M 4-2019

    A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus refuels a C-5M Galaxy from Travis AFB over California, Apr. 2019

  • DSRV 2 Avalon 1

    Loading a Mystic-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle onto a C-5 Galaxy

  • CH-53E loaded on C-5A Davis-Monthan 2005

    Loading a Super Stallion on a C-5A

  • Shemya700446b

    C-5A after crash landing at Shemya AFB, Alaska, July 1983

  • C-5 Galaxy crash 2006-04-03 F-0859C-018

    Emergency responders at the scene of a C-5B crash at Dover AFB, Delaware, April 2006

  • Airman from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron and 9th Airlift Squadronload a C-5 Galaxy flight deck on a C-5 for transport to Robins AFB

    The flight deck from the C-5B crash at Dover AFB in April 2006 being loaded into another C-5

  • Lockheed C5 Galaxy

    Drawing lines

  • C5 Galaxy nose

    A detail of the C-5's nose assembly raised for loading and unloading.

  • USAF C-5 Galaxy Engine

    A General Electric TF39 turbofan engine

  • A CH-47F Chinook helicopter is unloaded from a C-5M Super Galaxy

    Unloading one of two Chinook helicopters from a C-5M Super Galaxy

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