{"id":43327,"date":"2017-08-03T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/08\/03\/dover-c-5s-take-to-the-skies-again-after-repairs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:35:43","slug":"dover-c-5s-take-to-the-skies-again-after-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2017\/08\/03\/dover-c-5s-take-to-the-skies-again-after-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dover C-5s take to the skies again after repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Five C-5s at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware returned to flight Thursday after undergoing repairs to their nose landing gear, Air Mobility Command announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The C-5M Super Galaxy planes at Dover aren\u2019t the only ones getting the fix, an AMC statement said. Gen. Carlton Everhart, the head of AMC, has directed that all 56 of the command\u2019s C-5A and M models go through the same repair process, which involves replacing C-5 ball screw assembly parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C-5 operations at Dover stood down July 17 due to the second malfunction of the nose landing gear in a 60-day period. Dover maintainers have so far repaired almost a third of the base\u2019s 18 airlifters, and Travis Air Force Base in California has started to replace ball screw parts on its C-5s, AMC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t