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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 5, 2021 18:48:07 GMT 12
I am just wondering, do the C-5 Galaxy transports still visit Operation Deep Freeze at Christchurch International Airport these days? Or is it all just C-17's and C-130's nowadays?
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Post by nz104 on Sept 5, 2021 19:57:55 GMT 12
The C5 hasn't been on supporting Deep Freeze ops for a while now since around 2011 its the lc130's & Mc Chord based C17's for the main runs but Stewart based C17's bring the spares & other associated stuff out before the season really gets going.
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Post by baz62 on Sept 5, 2021 21:07:03 GMT 12
Didn't they retire most of them?
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Post by nz104 on Sept 5, 2021 21:27:05 GMT 12
A good number of them yes but some have been converted to C5m specifications with newer engines, avionics & several other upgrades from the earlier examples which improves there serviceability by a considerable margin.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 6, 2021 7:59:19 GMT 12
Thanks, I thought that was the case that they no longer visit New Zealand.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Sept 6, 2021 11:30:41 GMT 12
A good number of them yes but some have been converted to C5m specifications with newer engines, avionics & several other upgrades from the earlier examples which improves there serviceability by a considerable margin. Wasn't there a wing-spar issue also? |
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Post by McFly on Sept 6, 2021 15:01:11 GMT 12
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Post by emron on Sept 6, 2021 16:25:33 GMT 12
I’m not sure if this one ever visited NZ but it did have some Kiwi visitors. Timid little pussycat escaping the gaping maw, Harlingen, Texas 1979.  C5A_FM5_1979 by Ron Wilson, on Flickr |
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Post by emron on Sept 7, 2021 11:26:53 GMT 12
Some detail about the above displayed at the Confederate Air Force Air Show.
C-5A Galaxy USAF 69-0020 then of 60th Military Airlift Wing. Retired in 2017, now in storage Davis-Monthan AFB.
Our plane spotters may be able to confirm if it ever visited NZ.
FM-2 Wildcat N681S BuNo. 55585 then of C.A.F. here portrayed as # 41-F-4, (Model F4F-3, BuNo. 1850). N681S was later destroyed in a fatal accident in 2003 and is currently under restoration in UK.
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Post by Mustang51 on Sept 7, 2021 19:24:07 GMT 12
A really amazing sight is to see multiple C.5s doing circuits at Travis AFB, California and at Kelly in Texas.....only in America.....
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Post by camtech on Sept 7, 2021 20:34:10 GMT 12
Stopped at Travis for two nights way back in 1976, en route UK to NZ. My resounding memory was the continuous whine as numerous C-5's pounded the circuit most of the day and until very late at night.
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Post by typerated on Sept 8, 2021 11:02:26 GMT 12
There was a C-5 in ChCh on 22 Feb 2011 - Earthquake day.
Along with quite a few other USAF transports on the ramp.
They departed the next day once the airport reopened - and I was a little surprised didnt take part in the relief effort or the evacuation as far I can remember.
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