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    Airframe Family: Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
    Latest Model:C-5A Galaxy
    Last Military Serial:70-0449 USAF
    Construction Number:500-0063
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-5A sn 70-0449 USAF cn 50...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-5A.

    1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 70-0449.

    1972

    Transferred to 21st Airlift Squadron, 60th Military Airlift Wing, Travis AFB, CA.

    14 October 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    1 November 1991

    Transferred to 60th Airlift Wing, Travis AFB, CA.
    Unit renamed.

    1 October 1994

    Transferred to 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis AFB, CA.
    Unit renamed.

    5 November 1996


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Arriving Cedar Rapids, IA, on a foggy early morning.

    14 July 2004


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Fairford RIAT Arrivals Day 14 July 2004

    July 2004

    Transferred to 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus AFB, OK.

    By August 2005

    Transferred to 155th Airlift Squadron, 164th Airlift Wing (ANG), Memphis ANG Base, TN.
    Operated with markings: MEMPHIS

    26 September 2012

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 6951.

    26 September 2012

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 24.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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