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The third fully modernized C-5M Super Galaxy test aircraft was flown for the first time on 9 March from Dobbins ARB, Georgia, after being converted from a C-5A model configuration. This is the third of three test aircraft being used to test and demonstrate the improved reliability, maintainability, and availability of the C-5M. The C-5A fleet has approximately seventy percent of its useful structural life remaining and has been validated as structurally sound by the Air Force Fleet Viability Board. C-5 aircraft that have gone through the Avionics Modernization Program portion of the two-part C-5 modernization effort have logged more than 8,000 flight hours, many of which came in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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