AMPing Up

The US Air Force authorized Lockheed Martin in January to begin installing the first eight C-5 Avionics Modernization Program kits and also purchased the eighteen additional kits that will make up Lot 2. Installation of the Lot 1 kits is scheduled to begin in June. Once production starts, it will take approximately two months to modify each aircraft. Fleetwide AMP installation in the 112 C-5s is expected to be complete in 2007. AMP replaces the analog cockpit instruments and systems in the C-5 with digital displays and equipment and also provides the necessary communications and navigational avionics to comply with the new Global Air Traffic Management requirements.

Photo By John Rossino