Air Mobility Command museum receives C-5A for permanent display

DOVER, DE — On Wednesday, a C-5A will be retired and put on permanent display at the Air Mobility Command Museum.

 

This will be the 31st of the museum’s collection of retired military planes dating to the 1940s.

 

The AMC Museum will be the only museum to have a C-5 on display. The exact landing time of the C-5A, numbered 69-0014, will be announced on the museum’s Facebook page before Wednesday.

 

The plane will be taking off for its final flight from Memphis, but it was originally factory-delivered to Dover AFB in 1971. Since then, it has been stationed at Travis AFB in California, Altus AFB in Oklahoma and Lackland AFB in Texas.

 

In 1973, 69-0014 was the first and only to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It dropped the 120,000-pound missile at 20,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean.

 

The missile stabilized after about an 8,000-foot drop when it was lit and sent back toward the sky before falling into the ocean.

 

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