The Lockheed C5 Galaxy is a heavy military transport aircraft designed by the American Lockheed Corporation for the US Air Force in the late 1960s.
Created within the CXHLS program, the C5 aircraft was a real breakthrough in aviation of its time, giving rise to many new technologies that later spread throughout the aviation industry. With its huge size and record carrying capacity, Galaxy has practically closed the issue of the lack of transport capacity in the US Air Force. However, a huge number of innovations led to a huge number of problems, the solution of which took a lot of time, effort and money.
A total of 131 aircraft were built in the C5A and C5B versions. Most of the fleet is in storage, with about 50 aircraft in the upgraded version C5M Super Galaxy active in the US Air Force.
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