{"id":267947,"date":"2025-08-16T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-c-5-galaxy-built\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:00:13","slug":"how-many-lockheed-c-5-galaxys-were-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=267947","title":{"rendered":"How Many Lockheed C-5 Galaxy&#8217;s Were Built?"},"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\/\"  >C-5 Galaxy<\/a><\/span> was designed and built by Lockheed for the United States Air Force. At certain periods in the program, Lockheed had planned to develop the massive transport aircraft into a cargo variant and a passenger variant. It also wanted to update the aircraft and sell more of them to the Air Force, but ended up losing to the smaller McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) C-17 Globemaster III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 131 C-5 Galaxies were built, while Boeing&#8217;s losing design went on to be the 747 and accumulated over 1,500 sales.<\/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":[396,5549,1624,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-5-galaxy","category-lockheed","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267947","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=267947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267948,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267947\/revisions\/267948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}