Commercial C-5A

Lockheed pitches retired C-5As to commercial market

The USAF plans to retire between 22 and 32 C-5As within the next two years. Lockheed is proposing to offer these aircraft to either allies or commercial freighter companies.

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The C-5A is likely far more expensive to operate than the An-124, but Grant has a possible solution. The C-5A could be modified to the M-configuration . . . That upgrade will make the C-5 competitive on price with other outsize cargo freighters in the commercial market, he said.

In 2015, the cost to build and install the C-5M upgrades will be about $100 million per aircraft. The USAF has estimated the C-5A airframe will be viable through about 2030

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LM should sell whatever they’re smoking, they’d make a killing