{"id":265023,"date":"2025-08-11T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-c-5-galaxies-left\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:00:17","slug":"how-many-lockheed-c-5-galaxies-are-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=265023","title":{"rendered":"How Many Lockheed C-5 Galaxies Are Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261272\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-5-galaxy\/\"  >Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy<\/a><\/span> is <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2044346\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/largest-aircraft-us-air-force-analysis\/\" >the largest military transport aircraft built for the United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> and the third largest in the world (after the now-destroyed Antonov An-225 and the An-124). A total of 52 Super Galaxies remain active, with the rest in storage, scrapped, written off, or cannibalized for parts. Most flying C-5Ms are upgraded C-5Bs, although there are also some upgraded C-5As.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>52 Lockheed C-5s remain flying today, with most of the original 81 C-52Bs scrapped, in storage, or written off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,5549,412,11378,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-5-galaxy","category-military","category-military-transport","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265024,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265023\/revisions\/265024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}