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The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
This is a list of aircraft produced or proposed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from its founding as the Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1926 to its merging with Martin Marietta to form the Lockheed Martin Corporation in 1995. Ordered by model number, Lockheed gave most of its aircraft astronomical names, from the first Vega to the C-5 Galaxy.
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C-5A 1971 August 1971 August 7, 2013 United States Air Force: Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware: On static display [1] [2] 70-0451 C-5A 1972 1972 July 26, 2017 United States Air Force: Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center at Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California: On static display [3]
At 222 feet across, almost 300 feet in length, and 65 feet above the ground, Lockheed Martin's C-5 Galaxy is the largest transport aircraft in the US Air Force.. With a cargo hull 121 feet long ...
Heaviest until the C-5, Heaviest turboprop aircraft Caspian Sea Monster: 16 Oct 1966: Ekranoplan: 1: 100.61 yards (92.00 meters) 41.12 yards (37.60 meters)37.6 m: 535.41 tons: Heaviest and longest flying vehicle until the An-225, 1980 crash Lockheed C-5 Galaxy: 30 Jun 1968: Transport: 131: 82.34 yards (75.29 meters) 74.26 yards (67.90 meters ...
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy; Lockheed C-141 Starlifter; LTV XC-142; S. Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion; Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe This page was last edited on 13 May 2019, at 16: ...
The General Electric TF39 is a high-bypass turbofan engine that was developed to power the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. The TF39 was the first high-power, high-bypass jet engine developed. The TF39 was further developed into the CF6 series of engines, and formed the basis of the LM2500 and LM6000 marine and industrial gas turbine. On September 7, 2017 ...