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    Airframe Family: Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
    Latest Model:C-5M Super Galaxy
    Last Military Serial:85-0002 USAF
    Construction Number:500-0088
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-5M sn 85-0002 USAF cn 50...
    Latest Owner or Location:436th/512th Airlift Wings, Dover AFB, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-5B.

    By 30 September 1986

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 85-0002.

    30 September 1986

    Transferred to 60th Military Airlift Wing, Travis AFB, CA.

    1 November 1991

    Unit renamed 60th Airlift Wing.

    1 October 1994

    Unit renamed 60th Air Mobility Wing.

    From 19 October 2005 to 2006

    Avionics Modernization Program completed.

    February 2007

    Transferred to 436th/512th Airlift Wings, Dover AFB, DE.
    Operated with markings: DOVER

    17 June 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    From 2010 to 2011

    Converted to a C-5M.
    5th C-5M, 2nd production.

    9 June 2011

    Returned to service with 436/512th AW.
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