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Thursday, September 18, 2008

C-5 airlifts C-130 fuselage to Stratton ANGB
On Sept. 10, a 105th Airlift Wing (AW) C-5 Galaxy from Newburgh, N.Y., landed in Stratton Air National Guard Base with precious cargo – a training fuselage of a C-130A that the 143AW in Rhode Island no longer needed.



It was the first time a non-modified C-5 had carried this cargo. And getting the C-130 onto the C-5 was no easy feat. It took more than two years of careful planning to make it happen.

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