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A C-5 Galaxy is towed into new Regional Isochronal stages that Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. received this year. Westover continues to be the location -- one of only three in the Air Force -- of a regional isochronal inspection dock responsible for keeping the aircraft in the fight. (U.S. Air Force photo/SrA. Kelly Galloway)


Regional Isochronal dock

A C-5 Galaxy is towed into new Regional Isochronal stages that Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. received this year. Westover continues to be the location -- one of only three in the Air Force -- of a regional isochronal inspection dock responsible for keeping the aircraft in the fight. (U.S. Air Force photo/SrA. Kelly Galloway)

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C-5A Galaxy 70-0461 departs September 7, 2017, from Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. 0461 was the final C-5A in the Air Force's inventory and is destined to retire at the boneyard in Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)
Master Sgt. Joseph Coffey, an aero repair technician assigned to the 439th Maintenance Squadron, works on a ball screw drive assembly on a C-5M Super Galaxy August 23, 2017, in the Isochronal (ISO) Maintenance Dock at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. In July 2017, a nose gear problem led leadership at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, to issue a stand-down of their assigned C-5s. This grounding evolved into a fleet-wide issue while maintenance crews made the necessary repairs to the nose-gear ball screw drive assemblies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)
Master Sgt. Joseph Coffey, an aero repair technician assigned to the 439th Maintenance Squadron, works on a ball screw drive assembly in a C-5M Super Galaxy August 23, 2017, in the Isochronal Maintenance Dock at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. Two of these drives work in tandem to extend and retract the nose-gear of the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)
A Dover C-5M Super Galaxy recieves repairs to its nose gear August 23, 2017, in the Isochronal Maintenance Dock at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. The ISO Dock at Westover is the only minor ISO Dock for C-5 aircraft in the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)
An old and new ball screw drive assembly sit side-by-side Augugst 23, 2017, in the Isochronal Maintenance Dock at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. Two ball screw drive assemblies work in tandem to extend and retract the nose gear of the C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)
Three C-5M Super Galaxies sit on the flightline August 31, 2017, at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. Westover ARB is tasked with an airlift mission of providing global reach capabilities with mission-ready citizen Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)
Westover Airmen salute during the national anthem June 4 at the change of command ceremony on the base ellipse. Brig. Gen. Jay Jensen relinquised command of the wing to Col. D. Scott Durham.
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The last C-5B in the Air Force inventory takes off from Westover Jan. 18. The aircraft, tail number 87-0043, headed to Lockheed-Martin to get its second life as a modernized C-5M. The plane rose into the morning fog, as vapor and clouds clustered around its wings.